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headeralt: Flask and Okta logos. Copyright their respective owners.
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User authentication is a basic feature in web applications
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so that people can create and access their own accounts. Unfortunately,
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there are many ways to improperly implement authentication.
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User authentication is a basic feature in
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[web applications](/web-development.html) so people can create and access
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their own accounts. Unfortunately, authentication is not always easy to
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set up and there are many ways to incorrectly implement login and logout
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features.
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This tutorial walks through how to use the
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[secure identity authentication service](https://developer.okta.com/use_cases/authentication/)
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called [Okta](https://developer.okta.com/), which is free for up to 1,000
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active user accounts, to handle user data in Flask applications.
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active user accounts, to easily handle user data in [Flask](/flask.html)
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applications.
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## Our Tools
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Let's tweak one more bit in our application to fix the glaring lack of
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excitement in successfully completing the authentication code for this
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tutorial.
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tutorial. Update the two highlighted lines to match what is in the code
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block below:
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```python
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# imports for both Flask and Okta connection
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@app.route("/lair")
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@oidc.require_login
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def lair():
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thundercats_lair = '<html><head><title>Thundercats, hoooo!</title></head><body><h1>Thundercats now hidden lair.</h1><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/ahXtBEbHiraxO" width="480" height="273" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/retro-cartoons-thundercats-ahXtBEbHiraxO">via GIPHY</a></p></body></html>'
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return Response(thundercats_lair)
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~~ thundercats_lair = '<html><head><title>Thundercats, hoooo!</title></head><body><h1>Thundercats now hidden lair.</h1><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/ahXtBEbHiraxO" width="480" height="273" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/retro-cartoons-thundercats-ahXtBEbHiraxO">via GIPHY</a></p></body></html>'
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~~ return Response(thundercats_lair)
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@app.route("/")

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