authentication Archives

TypeScript

How to Set Up Passwordless Authentication in Expo

Recently, I worked on an Expo app for people who suffer from reduced hand dexterity. I thought: why not set up passwordless authentication?

AWS

Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with AWS

I researched a script that prompts a user for an MFA token in AWS if it’s needed and sets a temporary user session in the credentials file.

Developer Tools

Securing an API Gateway Using AWS IAM

For user access, AWS Cognito is a good choice for authentication and authorization. But when only machines are involved, AWS IAM may be a better fit.

Web Apps

Toggling Authentication Providers: Local Storage & HTTP Headers

Our team recently modified a login page that allowed for toggling authentication providers. In this post, I'll describe how we implemented it.

Developer Tools

Automating Getting an Authentication Token with Postman

Postman authentication tokens expire after fifteen minutes — a pain for longer sessions. So here's our method for automating token requests.

Java

Dropwizard Deep Dive – Part 2: Authorization

Part two of a series on extending Dropwizard with custom authentication, authorization, and multitenancy. Covers Dropwizard authorization.

Java

Dropwizard Deep Dive – Part 1: Custom Authentication

Part one of a series on extending Dropwizard with custom authentication, authorization, and multitenancy. Covers adding custom authentication to Dropwizard.

Web Apps

Authentication and Authorization: OpenID vs OAuth2 vs SAML

A comparison of OpenID, OAuth2, and SAML for user authentication and authorization – how they work, security risks, and best use cases.

Web Apps

Dynamic Rails Routes with Warden Devise and Constraints

Rails recently added a constraints option to routes which allows you to dynamically define routes based on the request coming in.

DevOps & System Admin.

Authentication and CouchDB

This post collects some of the articles and code snippets I tracked down while researching how to secure a CouchDB server.

Ruby

System Test Active Directory Authentication in Ruby

I came across a few Ruby libraries for connecting to Active Directory, but I used net-ldap gem, the environment_configurable gem and a few lines of code.