Client password

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Contents 1 Client page passwords 2 not needed - link suffices 3 via browser 4 via session 4.1 Session timeout 4.2 HTML 5 via session - only password 5.1 HTML

Client page passwords

Each client login has a name and optionally a password.

With the configuration

client needs to enter name/password  

you can control if and how the client password is being requested. If you are looking for a quick answer then we would either recommend

via session - only password 

or

not needed - link suffices

for the two common cases of having a password or not on a client link.

There are in total 4 different choices for the client page password behavior:

not needed - link suffices

If you choose this setting then a direct link will not request a user name or password. You also can leave the password for a login empty if this setting is active. A password might still be needed though, since you can not have the same login-name/password combination repeated.

via browser

Before October 2014 this was the only option for links to be password protected. INTERDUBS uses the browser based authentication on links sent with this option.

A client remained logged in for as long as the browser session is active. There are several potential disadvantages with this method:

• coming to the link via the login page requires the login / password combination to be entered twice
• people sometimes forget that they have logged in already - a link appears to have no password
• there is no time-out for the browser based session
• there is often only one client login page per INTERDUBS segment that the browser will remember

via session

This choice will present the normal login screen - even for a direct link. After entering login name and password the client page will be presented.

Session timeout

The configuration

 Session timeout in minutes

controls what length of inactivity will prompt a client for the password again. The default is 60 which will time out the client page after one hour.

HTML

The design of the page is being controlled via the normal configuration for your login page:

HTML login body

This can not be set for a login.

via session - only password

This choice works similar to the session based one. However the system will ONLY ask for the password that has been assigned. It will also display the login name on the password page.

HTML

The HTML configuration for this page is being controlled by the configuration:

HTML password only body	

It is possible to configure this for a login, since the system already know which link the client wants to access.