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It's essentially like Google Reader, lets you auth with your Google account, and works with a bunch of RSS apps.

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A surname.

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noun

A surname.

noun

Abbreviation of authentication. [Something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something; or the process of doing so.]

noun

Abbreviation of authorization. [(countable) An act of authorizing.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for auth.

noun

A surname.

noun

Abbreviation of authentication. [Something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something; or the process of doing so.]

noun

Abbreviation of authorization. [(countable) An act of authorizing.]

noun

Abbreviation of authoritarian. [One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.]

Example sentences

It's essentially like Google Reader, lets you auth with your Google account, and works with a bunch of RSS apps.

Doesn't that have all the problems of password auth, but with one extra step, with it's own failure modes, in between?

Lack of two factor auth is quickly becoming a dealbreaker for me for everything.

Also, somebody else mentioned this (in a less abrasive way) - what is it about the Twitter auth that's so creepy and invasive?

I'd also recommend still requiring a sudo password on the other end and sending auth events to a auditing server.

How two factor auth will prevent loss of your source code?

Same goes for snooping or compromising other sites' auth DBs.

Think I read that Google Auth falls back to SMS, so that wouldn't help.

GitHub username/password for http auth) there is no risk.

I find it interesting that he could log in without 2-factor auth.

If you use a stored procedure for user auth and the input comes in as x'; drop table users;-- the system will not drop the tables because the parameters get auto quoted.

I really need to have auth/voting though.

Quote examples

I'll at least hold that my recommendation is significantly better than the "state of the art" for a person who talks about ssh password auth -- typical state of the art there is using the same short memorable password for every server.