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Prevent the user from creating multiple devices whereas a session is available #11643

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giomfo opened this issue Dec 11, 2019 · 4 comments · Fixed by matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#5423
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giomfo commented Dec 11, 2019

Some Riot-web users add to their Favourites or Bookmarks the welcome or the login url screen.

When these users want to go back to Riot, they land on the login screen and fill their credentials. This creates a new device in their account (most of them are not aware of that). They don't understand why the app fails to decrypt the room history in the encrypted rooms.

Would it be possible to check the local storage when the login screen is loaded by the browser in order to prevent them from logging in again?

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Great idea! Few questions:

  • If we detect a session in local storage, what account info does the browser know? If we know the matrix id, it'd be great to then display the avatar/username/id with a [Continue as Nad] experience
  • Would the user need to enter their password/re-authenticate?

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uhoreg commented Jan 15, 2020

If the app detects that the user is already logged in, it should be able to redirect to the main screen with no interaction, and allow the user to just start using Riot.

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dbkr commented May 4, 2020

We're tracking this in #12476

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t3chguy added a commit to matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk that referenced this issue Jun 2, 2020
due to fragmentAfterLogin going back to `#/login`
and element-hq/element-web#11643

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <[email protected]>
t3chguy added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 2, 2020
due to fragmentAfterLogin going back to `#/login`
and #11643

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <[email protected]>
t3chguy added a commit to matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk that referenced this issue Jun 3, 2020
due to fragmentAfterLogin going back to `#/login`
and element-hq/element-web#11643

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <[email protected]>
t3chguy added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 3, 2020
due to fragmentAfterLogin going back to `#/login`
and #11643

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <[email protected]>
@t3chguy t3chguy self-assigned this Nov 16, 2020
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