This would frustrate me no-end. I'm not always at my own computer, and I change my password regularly to one to complex to remember. I don't always want to use my phone browser to login to sites I need access to.
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#12I make this at my website [ http://www.tanlup.com/users/login ], but you have a password as well. In general, people will use this method if they can't remember their password. I already thought about making this the default sing on method to a website (it works great for e-commerce sites without user registration), but e-mail issues (delays, spam) and the fact that not everyone lives on their inbos (like me) changed my mind.
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#13I hate the fact that I have to "validate" my email address with a lot of web app services when you first sign up.Imagine doing that every time you want to log on.
Definitely adds more resistance to the flow.
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#14RedHat's Mugshot did this in 2007. I really liked it.
http://bits.quintanasegui.com/2007/04/05/login-without-a-pas...
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#151. enter e-mail address 2. go to e-mail 3. refresh 4. refresh 5. count to ten... refresh again 6. maybe it's in my spam folder?.. no... 7. final refresh 8. give up in disgust minutes pass 9. e-mail finally arrives in inbox; delete it ---- I effectively use this method to log in to Amazon (I have a habit of always changing my Amazon password to something so secure I can't remember it for more than a minute at a time),…
It's been some time since I saw an email take more than 5 seconds to arrive.
Might not happen often, but it's a major bummer when it does.
An existing example: when you recover a password for some service you do it because you want to log in NOW, not some time next week.
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#16how 'bout log in via sms? Enter your mobile number. it texts you a code. input code. logged in.
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#17If I'm on a work computer I can't access my email.
If I'm on an untrusted (potentially keylogging) computer, I don't want to type my email password - but I may not care about the security of my Pandora password.
I think the process is defaulting every site to the same trust level as your email.
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#18One of my clients has so many web-based requests that he asked me to build a better system, and this system is basically what I came up with.
A visitor wants to use one of our request forms so he enters his email address and clicks Submit. The next page says "Check your inbox, spam and junk mail boxes for the email we just sent you, then click the link to complete our request form."
Nearly all of them click the link. SPAM and bogus requests have dropped to zero.
Once in a while we get a complaint stating that they never received the confirmation email, but we know they were all sent because we BCC copies to a special gmail account for archival purposes.
The client is happy.
No, this is not a login system but I'm going to implement it on my new website as a login system because it is MUCH simpler than dealing with passwords ... and there is far less resistance to this system than some of you seem to be complaining about.
The fact is, people really dislike dealing with passwords and this system gets rid of them.
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#19Fingerprints?
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#20There's a shipped project that ties this in to OpenID. http://emailtoid.net
Some of the OpenID crowd were aware of it at the time, but it hasn't really caught on. It's kinda fun to use it as an OpenID provider to log in to itself. Very meta and clean.