Should I require username at login?
I'm putting together my first website, and I'm wondering if I should bother asking for a username at login. If the password is long enough, won't that be just as difficult to geuss randomly as a shorter username and password?<p>Assuming the answer to that is yes, it a good idea to force users to choose a password, or would that be inconvenient?
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The number of people who pick '12345' or 'password' is astronomical. And forcing them to remember a "strict" password is more detrimental to the user experience than just having a user/password combination.
Besides, what are you going to do if you get dupes? "Sorry, that password is already in use"?
Besides, what are you going to do if you get dupes? "Sorry, that password is already in use"?
I see now that it is a terrible idea. Thank you.
If you need to allow identification of users, you'll probably want some sort of username. And adding a username later will be harder than putting one in now. Also, any deviation from what the users expect/are accustomed to (i.e. username/password) will lead to user confusion. I would just go with the standard username/password login.
Personally I don't mind if you generate a random password for me, but either way works.
Personally I don't mind if you generate a random password for me, but either way works.
There would be a username, it just wouldn't be a part of the login process. I'm inclined to go with a better system instead of what people are expecting, but that's probably bad policy if I want users :) . A randomly generated password might solve the duplicates problem, but I guess I'll just stick to the standard format. Thanks for the feedback.
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