Hello, I need some help! I am trying to create a user authentication for my multipage streamlit app and i create a YAML file as follows: credentials: usernames: user1: password: password1 user2: password: password2 cookie: expiry_days: 100 key: some_signature_key name: some_cookie_name f…

It looks like streamlit-authenticator only works with hashed passwords, so when you put in the raw passwords it won’t work.

Hello blackary, thanks so much for your help! I managed to solve the authentication problem but have a new issue. I created a multi page streamlit app and created 2 authentication fields - one login widget for existing users and one register new user widget. When I run the app locally, the user d…

I would recommend skipping the yaml step, and just writing the data directly to the sheet. You could even use the experimental GitHub - streamlit/gsheets-connection if that seems helpful. I don’t believe a worksheet will function well as an open file, which is what yaml.dump expects.

Thanks blackary! I fixed it! Not sure if this is the best method but this is what I did: I hosted the yaml config file in a google cloud storage bucket. So this means that when the app is deployed on streamlit cloud, it reads the code from github, but gets the config yaml file from GCS. And when a n…

That seems like a great solution. Yeah, it does look like streamlit-authenticator does require a yaml file, so that seems like a good way to go.

Streamlit authentication problems - can't log in

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clarac1996 July 25, 2023, 5:27pm 3

Yes got it thank you!

I am trying to run my project and getting: ValueError: Location must be one of 'main' or 'sidebar' or 'unrendered'

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