luciencd / spoiless

Remove reddit spoilers API
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User Authentication. #8

Open luciencd opened 8 years ago

luciencd commented 8 years ago

Due to my complete inability to write secure websites, I'd rather have someone else or something else take care of my Authentication.

Heard Oauth is good and i can assume google authentication would be useful, but main thing is this: I don't know anything about it.

When you sign into my application using google, does it create a new account on my database? Where does the password go?

What gives me permission to access user's data in my database if I don't have their password to compare it to..

Would I pass the username and password into a rest API which then sends back a True or False depending on if you entered it correctly or not. If that's the case, won't i have the physical password in order to send it (at least the front end would), I guess you would need to have a javascript function send it to the backend via an ajax request.

Someone help.