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Discussion on: Do users like passwordless logins?

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ohffs

I'm in an unusual position on this - 90% of my users are internal to the organisation and are 'programmed' to use their corporate username & password to log into systems.

But some systems allow for external logins - and for those I go with passwordless logins as it cuts down on password problems at our end, and reduces the amount of info admin users need to provide when creating external account. The external users seem to like it as it's one less thing they need to remember - the 'inconvenience' aspect of having to then check their email doesn't seem to come up - I guess they are all email junkies so check their email all the time anyway.

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Mathieu Dhondt • Edited

Thanks! As you are working in what seems to be a corporate environment, are there any security risks with passwordless logins you (have to) take into account?

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ohffs

We thought about it a bit - the main one is that if someone's email is hacked then they can get in without the "second factor" of a password - but given previously our admin's were in the habit of emailing their passwords in plain text when someone forgot them, it seemed like an improvement ;-)