On 12/26/18 11:05 AM, home user via users wrote: > Thank-you, Tim. > >> ... Look them all up on Wikipedia, if you want mostly understandable >> explanations of each of them. > I used to think Wikipedia is great. Lately, my opinion of it is > declining. It's not always authoritative, it's not very stable (article > contents change too much, too often), and other faults. I'm almost > certain I'm not the only member of this list with this view. > >> Normal password is the common plain-text/unencrypted username and >> password logon scheme as used with POP/IMAP for many years. >> ... > No mention was made of OAuth2. Wikipedia did not tell me enough about > it. Is it likely to be available for logging in to yahoo, gmail, and > the other common free commercial e-mail services? If yes, what are its > advantages, disadvantages, and risks relative to Normal password, which > is what I'm using now? OAuth2, despite its name, has nothing to do with two-factor. It essentially gets credentials from a third party log-in mechanism and passes those credentials along with the transaction it's trying to do. The most common thing is logging into a site using, say, your Facebook account. The site you're using into doesn't know anything about your account, but passes the authentication stuff off to Facebook. If Facebook says you're OK, then you're in and the token you get back from the site must be included in any future transactions. The token is typically only valid for a short period of time...the site can revalidate when it expires if it wishes to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
