What does "Latest Login" mean and what constitutes a "Login" for the purposes of "Latest Login"?

In an Auth0 tenant, there is a User Management section, and in that section, there’s a Users item, and if you go to that item and select a user, you will see a view of a User.

On the Details tab there’s a field “Latest Login”, in many cases the value will be “Never”.

One might expect based on this that the user has never used auth0, but…

If you select the “History” tab, you might see a number of events, especially “Success Silent Auth”.

So, what exactly does “Latest Login” mean? What is a “Login”?

The documentation only mentions “Latest Login” once, in passing, in:

and it does so without giving a definition/explanation of the field.

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Hi @jsoref,

Thanks for your question.

The “latest login” refers to the most recent time the user logged in. What constitutes a “login” is when a user successfully authenticates (s log event), such as with email and password.

So far, I have not been able to reproduce this behavior because silent auth fails if I was not previously logged in with the “login required” error. When I log in from this point, it would increment the logins_count to 1, populate the last_login field, and allow me to successfully silent auth.

Have you seen a user whose last login was “never” with success silent auth (ssa log event) requests in the history?

Kind regards,
Rueben

Yes. We have a number of users who have never and a whole page full of ssa events.

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@rueben.tiow: please feel free to reach out directly if you need more information. The poor behavior here is seriously problematic.

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Hi @jsoref,

Thanks for that information.

Could you please send me a direct message with your tenant name so that I can investigate these users further?