I have a question more about the security of using the API because I think I’m missing some trivial concept with my lack of experience. I have a headless implementation of discourse to integrate into my frontend and I’ve successfully enabled sso for user authentication. My initial understanding wa…

[image] BrainFried: a headless implementation of discourse to integrate into my frontend [image] BrainFried: isn’t this easy for a hacker to just modify the api-username in the header to retrieve chat discussions for any user? An Admin API key is the key to the kingdom [image] Do not…

[image] BrainFried: If my understanding is correct, isn’t this easy for a hacker to just modify the api-username in the header to retrieve chat discussions for any user? You should never use that API from a frontend because in that case this indeed is a risk (actually the risk is much higher …

As a headless implementation, I will be running this from my front end. So, in this case it seems like I need spend some time trying to decipher the discussion on this topic then: [image] User API keys specification Integrations Discourse contains a system for…

Confusion about API Authenticated User

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supermathie (Michael Brown) May 31, 2024, 2:57am 2

An Admin API key is the key to the kingdom

Do not put it anywhere in a frontend app. If you did, I recommend you revoke it immediately.

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Confusion about API Authenticated User

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