Password-less login

Re:Password-less login by grav on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:31AM (#13837409)

Password-less login is a bit of a weird naming. I'd call it one-time passwords. And then I'd maybe not use email, since this clutters the inbox. Instead something like Google Authenticator or SMS passwords would be a good solution, the latter maybe being a bit expensive for the service provider.

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Re:Password-less login by Freak_NL on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:42AM (#13837873)

That would make having an SMS-capable phone nearby a hard requirement to simply login to some service. I am fine with offering additional authentication methods — if they are safe enough for that application — but dismissing passwords as a concept (unless you are scaling up to proper 2FA, e.g., Fido U2F) just means losing users for no good reason.

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Re:Password-less login by gkya on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:12AM (#13838000)

> since this clutters the inbox

Email can be deleted.

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Re:Password-less login by hawski on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:00AM (#13837731)

Password-less as in "one password less to remember/invent".

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