Questions tagged [user-identification]
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Prevent users from starting multiple accounts?
I know that in the end it, can't be done.
But, what are the options to:
a) limit the options for persons to create multiple accounts,
b) increase the chance of detecting multiple accounts / person
for a blog-like web service?
(people can…
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How can I determine a user_id based on an email address in App Engine?
The newest App Engine SDK (1.2.1) has an API call to compute an ID for a user account based on his email address. (The ID remains the same even if the user changes his address later.) See this question about unique, opaque user IDs for…
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Why does iOS get a new identifierForVendor when app updates?
Every time my app is updated from the App Store some small number of the users get a new identifierForVendor for some reason. My users don't sign up or login. They are all anonymous so I need to separate them through their vendor IDs.
I've…
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Persistent Sessions in Meteor
So, one of the more confusing aspects I've been observing with Meteor is that Sessions get cleared every refresh. Since it isn't a persistent store, where would I put things like userid, or where people are in my application's state machine?
What…
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Environment.UserName returning application pool name instead of username
The following line
Environment.UserName
In debug mode in visual studio returns the identity of the user like I need.
Then when I set up my site in IIS and run the code the same line returns the name of the application pool which the site uses.
How…
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How to get Google USER ID (not the device ID) for sure?
There are several methods to identify a device - IMEI/IMSI/ESN, GoogleID, your own encrypted GUID, saved in private store, etc.
But as long as people switch their devices every 3-6 months it's important to identify not the device but exactly the…
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Registering unique users on basis of emailid
I want to register users on the basis of their emaild ids on my website, assuming that there is one to one relationship between users and their emailid strings. But gmail doesn't recongnize .s in email ids. That means juzerali@gmail.com and…
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How to find which account (email) has user used to log into my google-fit based android app?
I am trying to make an android app based on google-fit.
What I am trying to achieve is that I create an account for the user on my website as soon as the user chooses an account using the app.
Here is the code base that I want to build up upon (It…
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Get identity of logged in Visual Studio user from extension
I'm developing a visual studio 2015 extension and I'm looking to get the identity of the user who's logged into the IDE (different to the user logged in to windows, or running devenv).
I can't figure out where (or if) I can get that information. It…
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How to uniquely identify users ios7+?
I want to know who the user is without them actually logging in. There are bunch of methods on the internet and the one I am currently using is:
static let DeviceId = UIDevice.currentDevice().identifierForVendor.UUIDString
The problem is this…
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Passwordless app login
We are having an app running and identify our users using Facebook Login. Unfortunately Facebook Login isn't the best way to log in to an app and our users want something different. So, we're trying to discuss a new way of logging into our app. We…
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How do I redirect the user to a view once they've logged in and attempted to go back to the login screen ASP NET CORE
I have my auth controller which on successful login redirects the user to my dashboard controller with the user.identity properties populated, so I can use User.IsAuthenticated and User.IsInRole("Admin")
My question is.
Once the user is logged in…
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Universal Windows Application Runtime component not resulting UserIdentity on Windows 10 using Visual Studio 2015
I am using Windows 10 machine and Visual studio 2015 for a project which has Windows Run time component and Universal Windows application (UWA). UWA has reference of Windows Runtime component which perform a task to get UserIdentity (Window NT ID…
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Google Analytics User-ID returning Uncaught ReferenceError: None is not defined when user is not logged | Python
I am setting up the code for GA User-ID on my Python template (head section). The full GA script is: