Questions tagged [authentication]
Authentication is the process of recognizing a user's identity
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Right way to develop an authentication plugin in Joomla 4 / 5
I'm very new at this and it's my first attempt developing a plugin for Joomla. I'm currently using J5, and I'm trying to develop a custom authentication plugin. At the end of the code I'm using: $...
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How to override login failure on Joomla?
We have a Joomla site and it works smoothly. However, we need to implement SSO and we have a #__sso_identities table too, which we would like to check for. Current algorithm (pseudo-code) if user is ...
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How to authenticate a user with the official Joomla 4 REST API?
I am developing a mobile app that needs to authenticate users with a Joomla 4 site. I want to use the official Joomla REST API to do this, but I couldn’t find any information about how to authenticate ...
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Can I use a temporary access token instead of username and password to create a login session?
I think I have to write a custom plugin for this, but just for exhaustion, is this already possible? Or anyone knows a plugin that can do it?
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MFA redirects to home
When trying to activate MFA a user who tries to login is first 303 redirected to the page where he should go after login (setup in the login menu item) then 307 redirected to home with this url /...
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Register Plugin/Class Joomla
We have a custom login plugin which extends the CMSPlugin. I am trying to register the Class of the plugin inside a module but the following scenarios occur. Case 1 JLoader::register('...
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Joomla user authentication from iOS/Android app - any feedback?
Not so much a question as a review request. I am currently working on an app which needs to authenticate a user against an existing Joomla database which I have access to. As the password field in the ...
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Joomla plugin ajax request / class extend
I have created a "custom" authentication plugin and inside of it there is a function (onAjaxMyfunction) that is called from a module through com_ajax. The call "url" looks like ...
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How to connect custom authentication plugin to openid so I can authenticate it through steam?
I need to create a "login using steam button" for a website using Joomla, from my research I can gather up that using OAuth no longer works for Steam, so I'll have to create a custom ...
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Joomla 4 OAuth2 code example
Is there an example of code working with the OAuth2 class in Joomla (Joomla 4)? How to use this class? I'm trying to use Joomla native way, but don't see any useful example.
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How to make "Two Factor Authentication" mandatory for all admin users
I had enabled "two factor authentication" on a site with the Google Authentication Plugin, but discovered that an old administrator was still logging in to the admin. It turns out that if ...
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Undefined property: PlgAuthenticationmyauthplugin::$name in /somepath/www/libraries/src/Authentication/Authentication.php on line 184
I have made a custom login plugin for Joomla 3 and now for Joomla 4. However, in Joomla 4, the login works as it should, but it generates a stack dump in the error log: [Mon Jun 06 10:13:58.034860 ...
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How to encrypt and decrypt User data in joomla
I am new to joomla, and working on joomla application which is currently running on production environment. Application contains 1000+ registered users. As per GDPR Policy, I have requirement for ...
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Oauth2 in joomla template
**<?php /** * @package Joomla.Site * @subpackage Templates.bdcp * * @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2020 All rights reserved. * @license GNU General Public License version 2 or ...
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Can't login to admin with no errors (joomla 3.9.3)
My site on Joomla 3.9.3 is working well but since last week no one admin user can log in. There are no errors, the login form just refreshes after any submission. I've tried to rewrite Joomla core ...