Questions tagged [login]
For questions or issues surrounding login to Stack Exchange sites.
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Will you reconsider adding 2FA? For example, FIDO2 or TOTP codes?
I'm actually shocked to find that such a large site does not have 2FA. I saw mention of telling people to just rely on the 2FA of other sites such as Google or GitHub when signing in, but that short-...
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Transifex missing a string about incorrect e-mail
When I try to login in ruSO but put in an incorrect e-mail address, I get the string "No user found with matching email", untranslated. I wrote a bug-report in ruSO meta, but a moderator ...
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Let us sign in with GitHub on all Stack Exchange sites, not only Stack Overflow
I have noticed that you can add a GitHub login to your profile but there is only a "Sign in with GitHub" button on Stack Overflow and not on any other Stack Exchange sites, so you can only ...
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Global auth is dead! Long live universal login
Update: Universal login is in place and considered "done". If you see anything weird, please submit new bug reports.
As y'all know, our current flavor of "global authentication" ...
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Log in using MFA? [duplicate]
Is there a way to add 2FA or MFA to my existing Stack Exchange login, or I do have to add a GitHub, Google, etc. login?
I tried searching the help and looking around the settings, but I couldn't see ...
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How do I change my login provider(s)?
I no longer use the service that I originally used to register, and would like to change the service I use to log in, or at least add a second account.
Is this possible? How do I change my login ...
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How to change account login email [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a change to my Stack Exchange account's login email but it seemed to fail.
I did update the email address from my “profile” and validated the new email address via the confirmation ...
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How do I change the email I use to log in to Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I want to change my Stack Exchange account email, because I cannot log in to that email. I rarely use that email, which was only used for registering with Stack Exchange in the very early days.
After ...
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Accounts and logins of the Stack Exchange sites family [duplicate]
I have an account on Stack Overflow, for the past many years. Over the time I used other Stack Exchange sites as well, like TeX - LaTeX, Unix & Linux and Artificial Intelligence.
Yesterday I ...
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Cannot log in to Area 51 (so cannot ask this in its Discussion Zone)
I have an Area 51 account1:
But I cannot log in:
The option to sign up does not work either:
The option to join this community starts off okay and picks up my email (which I have not screen-shot) ...
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Remove the unnecessary text about "on most sites" from the login credentials Help Center page
The Help Center page How do I add or remove login credentials from my account? says that, "on most sites", you can follow a certain procedure to add a new login to your account (with ...
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Preserve entered values on traducir after login
Reminder: We’re moving Traducir to our internal infrastructure
Occasionally, I lose my login session on traducir.win and have to login again. This is not a complicated task, but it's hard to notice ...
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I still have to use my old e-mail address to sign-in, despite my new e-mail address showing up in "Your logins" page [duplicate]
Whenever I try to log-in using my new e-mail address (that is listed in "Your logins" page), I get "No user found with matching email" message.
Update: I have solved the issue on ...
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Can't join Area 51 discussions
I want to join the Area 51 (Stack Exchange site) Discussion Zone community. But when I click the "join this community", the page displays a message:
Completing log in to Area 51.
You will ...
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Why do I have to reset my password every single time I log in? (It says my password is wrong.)
Every time I try to log in it says the password is wrong, so my only choice is to reset it.
I'm using my e-mail address and password, not an OAuth provider.
Why do I have to reset my password every ...
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Why can't I log in with new/added e-mail address? (It's listed under "Other" on My Logins page)
I updated my e-mail address at stats.stackexchange.com. I verified it by clicking on the link in the e-mail I received. My new e-mail address was added under "Other" on the My Logins page.
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Why is Super User asking me to sign up? This does not happen for other Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
I can see my account and my Q&A history for Super User, but when I try to ask a new question, I am asked to sign up:
I don't see this issue with any other Stack Exchange site. What is going on?
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Network login failing [duplicate]
I am unable to log in, for example, to Super User. Using the latest Firefox on Windows 10, I already tried disabling addons like NoScript and uBlock Origin. After clicking on Login on Super User, it ...
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Is the email address under "Edit email settings" different than the email address under "Your logins"?
Stack Exchange's login system is confusing me terribly.
I just want to change my account's email address; the one I use to log in to sites like Stack Overflow.
When I go to My Profile -> Settings, ...
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OpenAuth without https [duplicate]
One of my computers is having problems and I can't use a https connection. I still want to log in to my Stack Overflow account, so is there any way for me to log in to OpenAuth using some service that ...
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Why can't I sign up for some Stack Exchange sites using GitHub? [duplicate]
Why are some of the communities not compatible with GitHub? How do I make sure I'm using the same account when creating new accounts if they don't have the GitHub option?
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I keep getting logged out of Stack Overflow
This has been reported quite a few times over the years, both with Chrome and Firefox (and maybe others, I did not read all the comments).
Since it is driving me crazy (but it's not like there is an ...
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Various logins don't work across SE sites, and can only log in from one single device
I have an account I've been using for over ten years, and it seems something has changed, perhaps more than once, in that period relating to how to log into the site.
I seem to have several login ...
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How do I permanently set my cookie preferences?
I visit Stack Overflow on my phone several times a week, and it seems like about once a week (maybe more?) I get this cookie banner.
I make my selections, and expect the site to remember them. A week ...
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Can't register for Area 51, nor use my existing SE account (doesn't match any existing meta.SE question I can find)
I just clicked to follow a proposal on Area 51, and then confirmed my email (the usual one I use for Stack Exchange), and then refreshed my area51.SE tab. I expected that somewhere along the line here,...
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Can't confirm new account when joining another site
I'm trying to have my sockpuppet join a new site, but whatever browser I use (in a private window, so cookies won't matter), I'm greeted with "Oops! Something Bad Happened!". It does not ...
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Is there a unified portal/dashboard to update/change user account details and login credentials for all Stack Exchange sites?
I have searched across portals and multiple pages Google search results, but I couldn't find any definitive way to update my account details uniformly for all the Stack Exchange sites.
Heck, there ...
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Sign up button on Talent redirects to home page [closed]
I am on Stack Overflow Talent, and I have two questions.
I tried to log in first, and it took me to the login page, but it seemed I am not a registered user, so then I tried to click on the Sign-up ...
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Session cookies seem to get lost
Starting around 1st of February, I get suddenly logged out from Stack Overflow or other Stack Exchange sites. I observed this effect in the following contexts:
(1) I switch to a browser tab where I ...
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Can one log in using multiple Google accounts with Stack Overflow?
I don't see an option anywhere though, perhaps some hack.
If not, can this be a feature request?
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Inbox notification for different site should log me in
I have frequently found that when I get an inbox notification for a different site in the network, it does take me to the right place, but I need to log in separately in order to e.g. respond to a ...
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Closed Area 51 proposals show more to anonymous users than when logged in [closed]
This is what the What If proposal looks like when logged in:
That's fine, I can live with that.
However, this is when not logged in:
Same page, same browser (Firefox 107 x64). One in a normal window,...
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Is there any way to recover my email address?
If someone forgets their email address and password how can they again login to the site? I know how to do it when I forget password but I did not find any solution to recovering my email address.
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How can I link two Google accounts to one Stack Exchange account?
I have one SO login that is linked to a Google Apps Account. The thing is... I have a second Google Apps account and I would like to add it to My Logins but nothing I have tried has worked.
I've ...
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How can I change my login address?
Screenshot 1. The new email address was already added.
(source: staticflickr.com)
Screenshot 2. The old email address was already removed.
(source: staticflickr.com)
Screenshot 3. My email address was ...
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Can't log in to my Stack Overflow account [duplicate]
I created another Stack Overflow account for another community that was not related to my main account, but I mistakenly added a GitHub login method with the mail from my main account. After that, my ...
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Cannot cancel out of account creation from Winter Bash "Log in or Sign up" link
At the top of the Winter Bash 2022 page there's a link to "Log in or Sign up". I don't have an SO account, so if I click on it I'm prompted to create one, linked to my SE profile. Clicking ...
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Impossible to reconnect with another Google account [duplicate]
I wanted to connect to a Stack Exchange site, but by mistake I chose my Google account from work.
I noticed it on the page that asks me to create my profile.
I clicked on Cancel to go back and use the ...
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Why cannot I join any Stack Exchange community as for now? [duplicate]
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/
I tried to join this astronomy community using the button on the top right. However, it tells me that "You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to ...
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Pressing enter submits form on login page
I have a very simple request that would add lots of value to the trilogy.
When you are in the login screen, the enter key doesn't submit the form. So, usually, this is what happens to me:
click ...
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Error returned when trying to login to Stack Overflow Teams after adding another login [closed]
I was successfully logged in to our new company Stack Overflow Teams account using email + password. I then (foolishly) attempted to attach another login using GitHub, thinking I could have my ...
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Ask Question > Create new account? > Cancel > Cancel > Cancel > …
Apparently, this bug was reported before here and here and it was supposedly fixed, so it's either a regression or it was just partially fixed (see below).
The bug happens when clicking the "Ask ...
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Getting out of an OpenID lockout [closed]
The problem I've had is the following:
I used to log in to Stack Exchange sites with the myVidoop OpenID provider. This provider is not supported anymore. I luckily had a cookie on my browser, which ...
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Can't log in to other communities. Only on SO (GitHub account) [duplicate]
I'm able to log in with a GitHub account on SO (Stack Overflow). When I go to other communities I see this:
When I try to log in, I don't see an option to use GitHub:
I think this is a bug, because ...
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Stack Overflow doesn't render some pages in Chrome with my Google profile
I have a Stack Overflow account linked to my Google profile. I have had difficulty loading many pages over the last month or perhaps longer.
For example, this SO page.
Some pages render fine, but ...
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Can Google and Cloudflare find my SE password?
We are using Firefox with the NoScript extension on GNU/Linux, mainly for security reasons.
When we go to the login page of a Stack Exchange site, say https://mathoverflow.net, the NoScript extension ...
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Why is my new account on an SE site only sort of attached? [duplicate]
I started a new biology SE account and used my Google information to log in. Now, I haven't used any SE site in perhaps two years, so I wouldn't be surprised if my old account from a deactivated email ...
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Can't login to SEDE - "StackApps authentication failed"
When I try to login to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer using Stack Overflow, it fails with the following error message:
StackApps authentication failed
I've tried several browsers, and even in ...
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Why is my account suddenly merged with a totally different user's account?
My account has been merged with another user (previously named "moderator") on the suspicion that the latter was my sock puppet, but this is not the case.
Now, that user is using my account ...
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Set the focus on the email field on the login page
Whenever I want to log in, I need to set the focus to the "Email" field on the login page. I believe it should be the default: what else would we want to do besides entering our email, then ...
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