The Problem: Yii2 utilizes by default UserIdentity configured in config/web.php for connection, this object apply one table to authentication ('identityClass' => 'app\panel\models\User'). How to authentication from diferent tables? Solution: Create instances in web.php to uses UserIdentify. eg:
I am writing this guide because I struggled to find a resource that included ALL of the necessary steps to completely separate the frontend from the backend. After reading guides like Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in yii-advanced-app and [yii2 configuring d...
This is as an extension of this wiki by Kartik V which shows to make different enableAutoLogin cookies for frontend and backend.
In this wiki I will show how could logout from all other sessions or all other places.
In this wiki I will show how could be store last login date & time in database. First we need a field LastLoginTime (Type must be datetime). this field store a user login detalis (like - Date & Time).
When talking about cookie-base login the Yii guide indicates the following:
In this wiki I will show how could forcing login for all pages and users must be logged in to access almost all of the site’s content.
In this wiki I will show how to Disallowing login for Inactive users. Only Active users can logging and access their account. You can set privacy for your yii web apps users.
In this wiki I will show how to Disallowing login from multi places. User can login or access their account at time, only single place.
Your need: You require that for shared machines, the user is authenticated again for a backend access again, if someone is logged in from frontend and vice versa.
Lets say we have 3 modules (customer, user, admin) in an application and we need, separate logins for each module.
login links will be
Like gmail, if you have tree or more unsuccessful login attemps a captcha appears
Getting "Expired token" errors ? Here is a solution to avoid invalid CSRF on POST or ajax requests, or user identity changes.
The Yii Framework is very powerful and it provides a lot of functionality right from the pre-built webapp. One of the nice things that is already established for you as a developer is the Login authentication. While the default configuration simply sets it up to run against an array of hard coded usernames and passwords, the [Yii Blog Tutorial](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/prototype...
This solution requires Yii 1.1.9 or above
In this article I will show you how to implement a secure password hashing mechanism in your Yii projects using a bCrypt class.
For some applications it can be advantageous for administration reasons to allow site administrators to login as other users. This is sometimes called user impersonation or "becoming that user".
You have to extend the widget class and configure it for user login widget