Splunk: Authentication with Discord? Wht not! (OAuth 2.0)
As some of you may already know, thanks to OAuth standard (which stands for Open Authorization) we don't need a separate account for every single website. It allows us to share information about our Google account with a third party, such as our name and e-mail address. On many sites we are free to use that "Login with Google/Facebook/other" button to sign up and/or login. Thanks to OAuth we don't have to give our password to the app/website. Upon login we are redirected to the OAuth provider site to login there (for instance to our Google account). And now the best part - if we are already logged on the provider site, this is likely to result in instant login on a third party site (sometimes interrupted by a pop up to confirm OAuth scope). Here is a list of well-known OAuth providers (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OAuth_providers To get better understanding of OAuth 2.0 I would recommend reading these docs for developers: Using OAuth 2.0 to Acces