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Jackinopolis@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoWhat else is reasonable to use to uniquely identify users? A username they’ll forget? A phone number maybe? But who wants to give their phone number to some company? We could use SSN like Korea, but that’s way too far for a typical user.
Nougat@kbin.social 8 months ago
You want to use a value which will never change, so you don't use anything the user provides at all. When a user creates an account, that account is assigned a unique identifying value by the application. This is how objects are identified in Active Directory, for example: each user, computer, group, etc. gets a Security Identifier (SID). That SID never changes. Every other property of the object can be changed.
Basically, the key value to say "this account is this account" should never ever have any other purpose.