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@ -454,7 +454,33 @@ and everybody seems happy about it. There are other communicating channels every
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user have available like email or git, but they are totally inappropriate for
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designing user interfaces on top of them.
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@todo: what type of users there should be, why they are needed
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The application interacts with users. From the project assignment is clear, that
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the system has to keep personalized data about users and adapt presented content
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according to this knowledge. User data cannot be publicly visible, so that
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implies necessity of user authentication. There are several way of
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auhtentication user in web applications. HTTP basic authentication has a few
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drawbacks like sending plain credentials in every request or no logout option,
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so it is not recommended to use. Using cookies is possible, but it is
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susceptible to various types of attacks including stealing and also brings state
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into stateless protocols as REST. Another option is using tokens, OAuth2 or JWT
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(JSON Web Token). Nowadays it is widely used and has only a few cons (need to
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make extra effort to mitigate XSS attacks). Additional option is usage of
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one-time passwords. These can be time or counter based and are mostly used for
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two-factor authentication. Since ReCodEx does not need to have military grade
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security, JWT tokens are used for authentication. However, two-factor
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authentication may come in next releases.
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User data also includes a privilege level. From the assignment it is required to
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have at least two roles, _student_ and _supervisor_. However, it is wise to add
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_administrator_ level, which takes care of the system as a whole and is
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responsible for core setup, monitoring, updates and so on. Student role has the
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least power, basically can just view assignments and submit solutions.
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Supervisors have more authority, so they can create exercises and assignments,
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view results of students etc. From the university organization, one possible
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level could be introduced, _course guarantor_. However, from real experience all
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duties related with lecturing of labs are already associtated with supervisors,
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so this role seems not so useful. In addition, no one requested more than three
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level privilege scheme.
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@todo: groups, they can be public and private and why is that, what it solves, explain and discuss threshold and other group features
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