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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 20 hours ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 69 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Not that strange. Different users may belong to different groups which may have different authentication backends. The associated authentication method is brought up once a username has been provided.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 43 points 19 hours ago

if your choice of api route directly affects your auth flow something is very wrong.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 22 points 18 hours ago

You can do that as part of an OAuth workflow. You don’t need to have them on separate pages for that to happen.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

Yes, but, it also lets them slurp up email addresses. Routing users is legit tho.