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Registration is a process through which a person or entity provides some necessary information about himself to the company or other entity he/it wants to be registered with.

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Automatic post-registration user authentication

We're building a business app from the ground up in Symfony 2, and I've run into a bit of a snag with the user registration flow: after the user creates an account, they should be automatically logged in with those credentials, instead of being…
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What are the pros and cons of using an email address as a user id?

I'm creating a web app that requires registration/authentication, and I'm considering using an email address as the sole user id. Here are what I see as the pros and cons (updated with responses): PROS One less field to fill out during registration…
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disabling Devise registration for production environment only

I am launching a beta site with a select group of users. I want to disable registration in the production environment only, and only for a short period of time (i.e. I don't want to nuke my registration altogether). I know I can simply hide the…
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How to register an Android developer account for a company?

I'm trying to register an Android Developer account for our company that we'll use to publish our company's apps to the market. So we don't want a account which is bound to a single developer. But this statement which is displayed before paying the…
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How does domain registration work?

I searched on Google and Wikipedia a lot, but I could't find answers for these questions. 1) What exactly registrar company do? They update an root DNS and set there IP of my DNS? 2) How come the registrar can update records in the root DNS? How did…
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PJSIP Custom Registration Header

I am attempting to setup SIP communication with an internal server (using the PJSIP library), however, this server requires a custom header field with a specified header value for the REGISTRATION call. For example's sake we'll call this required…
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Devise: Disable password confirmation during sign-up

I am using Devise for Rails. In the default registration process, Devise requires users to type the password twice for validation and authentication. How can I disable it?
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GCM 'Error : Not Registered'

I succeed in testing My GCM code. But exactly same code, I couldn't get GCM push and got: GCM Error : Not Registered.
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Base64: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character

I'm trying to send a confirmation email after user registration. I'm using the JavaMail library for this purpose and the Java 8 Base64 util class. I'm encoding user emails in the following way: byte[] encodedEmail =…
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Prevent users from starting multiple accounts?

I know that in the end it, can't be done. But, what are the options to:   a) limit the options for persons to create multiple accounts,   b) increase the chance of detecting multiple accounts / person for a blog-like web service? (people can…
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How to block Disposable Email Addresses in your website's registration form?

I would like to know of the possible ways to block disposable email addresses from registering in my website. For simplicity, let's take the example where the registration form of the website is done with HTML and PHP. Any ideas, solutions or…
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Rails 3 with Devise for Authentication - How do I manually create a user?

I would like to manually create new Users, without forcing them to verify their email address. The idea is to allow existing users to automatically add their friends without requiring their registration. It makes sense for the business case I'm…
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Django-Registration & Django-Profile, using your own custom form

I am making use of django-registration and django-profile to handle registration and profiles. I would like to create a profile for the user at the time of registration. I have created a custom registration form, and added that to the urls.py using…
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Is there a Spring Security OpenId Registration like stackoverflow?

I cannot find a complete example anywhere of a Spring Security Web App with Open Id registration similar to stackoverflows. I would say I'm pretty techy guy but I find Spring Security extremely intimidating with its weird Spring XML DSL. I have…
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Object Library Not Registered When Adding Windows Common Controls 6.0

I am trying to install Visual Studio 6 on a Windows 7 32bit machine. The OS intall was from bare metal. I followed the instructions mentioned here (which I have used before) The install went fine with no errors reported but when I try to add the…
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