HeyPuter
Sign-in through QR code on sign-in page
Originally brought up on Discord, the idea is to provide a sign-in system similar to the Discord desktop app, where in the app on the desktop it will display a QR Code, and then on the Discord mobile app, you can open a settings menu to scan the sign-in QR Code to authenticate a new session on the PC. Essentially, when presented with the Puter sign-in page, as an alternative to manually entering in your username and password, you can instead display a QR code on the desktop browser, which can then be scanned by the Puter web app to provide authentication. I do believe modern HTML5 and JavaScript APIs can use the camera on a device, and have the web app process it, in this case, to provide authentication.
Currently Puter can do the reverse of this, where say, you are signed into Puter on a Desktop PC or ChromeBook, and can click an option to display a QR Code in the browser, which when scanned by a smartphone or tablet, will authenticate you. This method does not work really well for desktop PCs, or say public kiosks which may not have a webcam or a QR scanning app.
Thanks for posting this awesome idea. I'm very interested in implementing this feature. One thing I need to investigate a little more (or beta test) before pulling the trigger is the security aspect of this flow.
I'm adding the mobile-support label to this because I think this sign-in flow is currently less common than the one we support, but it will become more common as we improve mobile support.
I'm interested in this and would appreciate if you could assign this to me @KernelDeimos.
