# Request: allow username/password login to commoncog main site and/or forum

**URL:** https://forum.commoncog.com/t/request-allow-username-password-login-to-commoncog-main-site-and-or-forum/2711
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [May 11, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/request-allow-username-password-login-to-commoncog-main-site-and-or-forum/2711 "2025-05-11T01:09:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![jrmylow](https://forum.commoncog.com/user_avatar/forum.commoncog.com/jrmylow/32/1476_2.png) [@jrmylow](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/jrmylow)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/request-allow-username-password-login-to-commoncog-main-site-and-or-forum/2711/1 "2025-05-11T01:09:01Z")

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Hoping the title is self-explanatory. Can there be an option to use username/password to log in? The need to use an email link is quite annoying.

Thanks

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### Author: ![cedric](https://forum.commoncog.com/user_avatar/forum.commoncog.com/cedric/32/3_2.png) [@cedric](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/cedric)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/request-allow-username-password-login-to-commoncog-main-site-and-or-forum/2711/2 "2025-05-11T08:04:36Z")

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This has been on our todo for some time, but the key blocker is that we’re using Ghost for auth as well as for membership subscriptions and member management, and switching the auth means switching from Ghost, which is a lot of work.

So, this will not likely happen for some time, but it _is_ on our todo — you’re not the only person who has complained about this. Sadly, it’s not the highest order bit.

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### Author: ![justin](https://forum.commoncog.com/user_avatar/forum.commoncog.com/justin/32/449_2.png) [@justin](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/justin)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/request-allow-username-password-login-to-commoncog-main-site-and-or-forum/2711/3 "2025-05-11T08:09:00Z")

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There are also good reasons for not using passwords [We Don’t Want Your Password](https://www.404media.co/we-dont-want-your-password-3/)

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### Author: ![ellen](https://forum.commoncog.com/user_avatar/forum.commoncog.com/ellen/32/2424_2.png) [@ellen](https://forum.commoncog.com/u/ellen)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.commoncog.com/t/request-allow-username-password-login-to-commoncog-main-site-and-or-forum/2711/4 "2025-05-11T13:26:27Z")

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Logging into the forum seems actually possible with username & password. I do it all the time. Might be a leftover from 2022 when I signed up, not sure.