I need to load a second page to enter my password in some sites. Why is this? I even have a site I use that has the username, password and 2FA entries on separate pages that each need to be loaded one after the other.
My uneducated guess is that it makes it harder for bots, but I can’t imagine it being that much of an impedance 🤷
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That doesn’t explain why my Synology NAS does it, though, because I don’t believe the web portal has the ability to handle different authentication flows.
I think it might also be a barrier against brute force attacks.
Synology offers cloud services and business level support for their enterprise products. They do support different authentication workflows, they are just not all included with the consumer products.
I’ve never used Synology stuff but it could be future proofing or a default feature of the authentication service/provider they’re using (if they are using one).
For a NAS, it actually seems like something corporate customers would very much want to have SSO support for so I’d actually be surprised if there wasn’t some way to set it up already