I’ve created a username “testuser”, and I’m signing up again, specifically to test that a user cannot occupy the same user name. The error I get is “Something went wrong, please try again later” I’m using sign in with redirect, via the react hooks. [Screenshot 2024-06-04 at 9.27.50 PM] It’s not …

Hello everyone! The default “Something went wrong, please try again later” is designed to prevent user enumeration attacks. If a threat actor is aware that a user exists, then they can perform an authentication attack against them, such as brute-force. However, if you wish to modify this message …

Signing up with an already existing username error is wrong / ambigous

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Signing up with an already existing username error is wrong / ambigous

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