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I like that Login and Logout were merged, but "Logging" is an ambiguous name since "logging" by itself normally refers to data logging. Beyond Authentication and Password issues this is really a dictionary entry anyway ("log in" vs "login", etc.) — Quarl ( talk) 2007-03-07 14:34Z
As a software engineer I can't say that I've ever heard of anyone referring to "logging in" as simply "logging." "Logging" on its own has always meant one of two things, data logging or logging, i.e., what one does with trees. (The original confusion for the name of this article may have come from the actual term "logging in" or the word "login" which sounds similar to "logging.")
Instead of the current article name I propose this article to be renamed to something else, possibly to "logging in" or "user authentication process (computer)" (discussing "logging in" and "logging out") or something else but not "logging." (There may already be a suitable article that the log-in/out process could be merged into.) Finally, "logging" should redirect to a disambiguation page (listing data logging and logging and possibly "logging in (computer)" or whatever this article ends up being called). - Andreas Toth ( talk) 00:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Ok I seem to understand the difference in Login and log in. What about Login ID? Can you use that in place of Username (or is it User Name?), or would that not be a correct term. I know I've seen it all over, but it doesn't mean it's right.
Where did the term come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.86.151.246 ( talk) 18:54, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I challenge the use of the term login as a noun. It could lead to confusion. Login should be used as an adjective. For example, a login problem or a login procedure. Consider the following sentences:
Incorrect: Sir, I lost my login (n.) today. Can you help me? Correct: Sir, I lost my login (adj.) information today. Can you help me?
I was looking for actually logging out!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasberry15 ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
🤪 Kinsey-King ( talk) 13:04, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
The article currently suggests that the verb form of "login" is always "log in". While I certainly see the logic, popular usage doesn't seem to mirror this assertion.
Compare "Please login" (59 million results) with "Please log in" (20 million results). Of course, searches of "login to" and "log in to" show popular usage favoring "log in".
In the end, it looks like both verb forms, "login" and "log in" are popular. As such, I've added a request for citation in the article body, simply that the article can demonstrate conclusively that "login" as a verb, while extremely popular, is definitely wrong (if it in fact is). Merreborn ( talk) 01:40, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
This article has only 5 sections. Expand this, if so.--99 time 14:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockers99 ( talk • contribs)
There should be some explanation or trying to pointing towards a section on the exploitations and vulnerabilities of login structures? Seems to be a big miss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.183.188 ( talk) 18:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/login indicates that "login" can be used as a verb (e.g. "Login with your new password.") but also states "Many who are neither professionals in the computer field nor amateur tech enthusiasts decry the use of the solid form LOGIN as a verb, and with reason. It doesn’t behave like a normal verb. You cannot say you have loginned, and you are never in the process of loginning." Is this a case of so many people using the word incorrectly that it is now acceptable usage? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 14:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Just reading this page, the quality of this page is poor. I'm going to spend some time fixing it when I get a chance. -- Rockstone talk to me! 02:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I wonder wherefrom the definition comes. Both OED and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English define login as a procedure of logging in, not as credentials being produced during the procedure.
I have heard some people referring to username (but never to both username and password) as "login" but I believed it to be just a slang usage. Maksim Otstavnov ( talk) 12:29, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
How many sites have a feature which allow the user to check how many times the user has logged on to the site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.221.161.144 ( talk) 22:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone have more information about using a pc without login (no password asked upon starting the pc). Wikispaghetti ( talk) 15:43, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Nice idea. Okafor Agholor Augustine ( talk) 05:30, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
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Change the exclamation point to a period SCrowe24 ( talk) 15:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Fernando Corbató wrote the first password authentication for CTSS and chose "LOGIN" as the command. I suspect that choice reflected his having served in the Navy.
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I like that Login and Logout were merged, but "Logging" is an ambiguous name since "logging" by itself normally refers to data logging. Beyond Authentication and Password issues this is really a dictionary entry anyway ("log in" vs "login", etc.) — Quarl ( talk) 2007-03-07 14:34Z
As a software engineer I can't say that I've ever heard of anyone referring to "logging in" as simply "logging." "Logging" on its own has always meant one of two things, data logging or logging, i.e., what one does with trees. (The original confusion for the name of this article may have come from the actual term "logging in" or the word "login" which sounds similar to "logging.")
Instead of the current article name I propose this article to be renamed to something else, possibly to "logging in" or "user authentication process (computer)" (discussing "logging in" and "logging out") or something else but not "logging." (There may already be a suitable article that the log-in/out process could be merged into.) Finally, "logging" should redirect to a disambiguation page (listing data logging and logging and possibly "logging in (computer)" or whatever this article ends up being called). - Andreas Toth ( talk) 00:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Ok I seem to understand the difference in Login and log in. What about Login ID? Can you use that in place of Username (or is it User Name?), or would that not be a correct term. I know I've seen it all over, but it doesn't mean it's right.
Where did the term come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.86.151.246 ( talk) 18:54, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I challenge the use of the term login as a noun. It could lead to confusion. Login should be used as an adjective. For example, a login problem or a login procedure. Consider the following sentences:
Incorrect: Sir, I lost my login (n.) today. Can you help me? Correct: Sir, I lost my login (adj.) information today. Can you help me?
I was looking for actually logging out!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasberry15 ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
🤪 Kinsey-King ( talk) 13:04, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
The article currently suggests that the verb form of "login" is always "log in". While I certainly see the logic, popular usage doesn't seem to mirror this assertion.
Compare "Please login" (59 million results) with "Please log in" (20 million results). Of course, searches of "login to" and "log in to" show popular usage favoring "log in".
In the end, it looks like both verb forms, "login" and "log in" are popular. As such, I've added a request for citation in the article body, simply that the article can demonstrate conclusively that "login" as a verb, while extremely popular, is definitely wrong (if it in fact is). Merreborn ( talk) 01:40, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
This article has only 5 sections. Expand this, if so.--99 time 14:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockers99 ( talk • contribs)
There should be some explanation or trying to pointing towards a section on the exploitations and vulnerabilities of login structures? Seems to be a big miss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.183.188 ( talk) 18:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/login indicates that "login" can be used as a verb (e.g. "Login with your new password.") but also states "Many who are neither professionals in the computer field nor amateur tech enthusiasts decry the use of the solid form LOGIN as a verb, and with reason. It doesn’t behave like a normal verb. You cannot say you have loginned, and you are never in the process of loginning." Is this a case of so many people using the word incorrectly that it is now acceptable usage? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 14:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Just reading this page, the quality of this page is poor. I'm going to spend some time fixing it when I get a chance. -- Rockstone talk to me! 02:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I wonder wherefrom the definition comes. Both OED and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English define login as a procedure of logging in, not as credentials being produced during the procedure.
I have heard some people referring to username (but never to both username and password) as "login" but I believed it to be just a slang usage. Maksim Otstavnov ( talk) 12:29, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
How many sites have a feature which allow the user to check how many times the user has logged on to the site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.221.161.144 ( talk) 22:12, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone have more information about using a pc without login (no password asked upon starting the pc). Wikispaghetti ( talk) 15:43, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Nice idea. Okafor Agholor Augustine ( talk) 05:30, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
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Change the exclamation point to a period SCrowe24 ( talk) 15:17, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Fernando Corbató wrote the first password authentication for CTSS and chose "LOGIN" as the command. I suspect that choice reflected his having served in the Navy.
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