loginbased

Loginbased is a term used to describe an approach to authentication and access control in software systems that centers on the login state of a user. In a loginbased design, resources and operations are protected by evaluating whether a user has an active authenticated session, often represented by a session identifier or bearer token obtained after a successful login.

Concept and scope: The concept emphasizes that access decisions depend on the user's authenticated status and associated claims or roles. It is commonly implemented in web applications, APIs, and mobile services that rely on stateful sessions or stateless tokens. It can be used with models such as role-based access control (RBAC) or attribute-based access control (ABAC).

Architecture: A typical loginbased system includes a client component that initiates authentication, an identity provider or authentication server that issues tokens or session identifiers, a storage mechanism for sessions or tokens, and an authorization layer that enforces checks on requests. Advanced deployments may support multi-factor authentication, token refresh, and single sign-on.

Security considerations: Implementations must protect credentials and tokens, ensure secure transmission with TLS, set appropriate token lifetimes, support revocation, and guard against common threats such as session fixation and token theft. Logging of login events and anomalous access attempts is common for auditing.

Alternatives and related concepts: Loginbased overlaps with and complements other authentication approaches, including session-based authentication, token-based authentication, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect, as well as authorization models like RBAC and ABAC.

See also: Authentication, Session management, Token-based authentication, OAuth, OpenID Connect, RBAC, ABAC.