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Token based auth

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby

Research direction

Start by reviewing the tmc-server code that handles HTTP Basic authentication and the client authentication flow. Clarify whether the intended solution is access tokens, cookies, OAuth, or a scoped combination, then define the client and server behavior and tests required for completion.

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Description

easy enhancement lowprio security

For various clients, instead of using http basic auth for authentication, let users create access tokens that can be used instead of username, password pair or start using cookies or oauth...

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
51
Forks
42
Avg merge
1h 27m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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