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How To: Automatic Login

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How To: Automatic Login

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Step 1: Get the credentials


The login page seems the obvious choice to trigger the automatic login.


For the OnReady of the login page, check to see if there are any stored password credentials associated with this domain. If a credential is retrieved, you can pass the username and password to the login method.

And the result is you get automatically logged in every time you visit the page.



In this example I’ve used the “Optional” (user) mediation, so if you are like me and have multiple users for an app you get prompted to choose which one you want to login with:


Step 2: On logout prevent automatic login

On the client logout make sure to trigger the Prevent Silent Access so that the user does not get logged in again.


Step 3: Store the credentials after user registration or successful login

To store the credentials it is recommended to trigger this right after the registration of the user.


Something like this: