September Tips: 5 things you should know from social logins to refresh tokens

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Hi All! Back with another installment of monthly quick tips based on trending search terms in the community. Here are a handful from the past month:

Facebook Login

• Auth0’s Facebook login integration enables users to sign in to your app using their Facebook accounts, simplifying authentication and enhancing user experience. Auth0 manages the OAuth2 process, token handling, and security, making it easy to implement and customize social login for your web or mobile application.

LinkedIn Login

• Auth0’s LinkedIn login integration allows users to authenticate using their LinkedIn accounts, streamlining access to your app while ensuring secure OAuth2 management. It simplifies the implementation of social login and offers customization options for web and mobile applications.

If using or upgrading to v3 (recommended) don’t forget to add the “Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect” product to your application in the LinkedIn developer portal:

Error "Your LinkedIn Network Will Be Back Soon" when Using LinkedIn Social Connection

Overview The LinkedIn social connection fails to log users in, showing a LinkedIn error page (500): Your LinkedIn Network Will Be Back Soon Cause LinkedIn has moved to using the OIDC protocol. The latest strategy version (v3 at the time of writing) of the LinkedIn Social connection Auth0 provides uses this new protocol. Solution When using Strategy v3 of the LinkedIn Social connection, the respective LinkedIn app must have the OIDC sign-in product enabled: [rtaImage (31).jpeg] Related Refe…

Refresh tokens

• Refresh tokens enable long-lived sessions by allowing users to obtain new access tokens without re-authenticating. This improves user experience by maintaining continuous access to your app while ensuring security through token rotation and customizable expiration settings.

What are Refresh Tokens?! and...How to Use Them Securely

For help on implementing refresh tokens in a SPA:

How to Use Refresh Tokens in a SPA?

How to use refresh tokens in a SPA (Single Page Application)? This is a common design pattern for SPAs implementing authentication and authorization using Auth0. While relatively straightforward, there are several steps required to get an app up and running with refresh tokens. Step 1: Configure required settings in the Auth0 Dashboard Be sure the SPA application in Auth0 has the Refresh Token grant type enabled [Screenshot 2024-05-29 at 5.01.09 PM] Confirm the Allowed Callback URLs are …

Account Linking

• Account linking allows users to merge multiple identities from different providers (e.g., Google, Facebook, or email) into a single account. This provides a seamless user experience, enabling users to access your app with any of their linked identities while maintaining a unified profile.

Admin Account Deletion

How to Delete an Auth0 / Auth0 Community Forum Account

Last Updated: Aug 9,2024 Overview This article will cover how to delete an Auth0 and Auth0 Community Forum account. Applies To Account Community Forum Solution Follow the steps or video below to delete the accounts. [How to Delete Your Auth0 and Auth0 Community Forum Account - Auth0 Support] Deleting Auth0 account Send @support a private message in the community forum that the account needs to be deleted. Provide the following information: Why the account should be deleted. P…

When researching topics in the community, don’t forget to check out our Knowledge Solutions - We add to this repository nearly daily Here are a few of the most viewed from the month of August:

Organization Member Login Error "client requires organization membership, but user does not belong to any organization"

Overview The below error occurs when the user is a member of the organization, but the connection to which the user belongs is not enabled for the organization: client requires organization membership, but user does not belong to any organization Applies To Organizations Organization’s Member Error Cause For a user to be assigned to an Organization, the respective connection has to be enabled for the Organization. Solution After a user provides an email address, Auth0 matches it with Connec…

Invalid Request Payload Input Error during User Role Assignment via Management API

Overview A 400 error message with the description Invalid request payload input occurs when assigning Roles to a user using the /API/v2/users/{id}/roles endpoint. The same error message can also be seen when troubleshooting the request in the inline tester from the documentation: Assign roles to a user. Applies To Management API Cause The problem is in the string elements of the roles array in the body of the request: { "roles": [ "string" ] } Solution For the request to be successful, the …

Azure App Gateway WAF Are Triggered by Certain Character Sequences in the Authorization Code

Overview The application is published by an Azure app gateway with a WAF. The WAF rules are like the following: Microsoft_DefaultRuleSet-1.1-SQLI-942450 (SQL Hex Encoding Identified) – gets triggered by following the pattern “0x” Microsoft_DefaultRuleSet-1.1-SQLI-942440 (SQL Comment Sequence Detected) – gets triggered by following the pattern “—" When Auth0 sends the authorization code back to the application’s callback URL, certain character sequences in the code can trigger the WAF rules (e…

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