Signing in

Cloud signs you in with your email address and a password. Accounts cannot be created from the sign-in page: you are invited to a site first, and the invitation email is what lets you set a password. See Quick start.

Everything below is an additional sign-in method a portal can offer. Which of them you are given depends on what your portal has turned on and on what you have set up for yourself.

Two-factor authentication

With two-factor authentication set up on your account, a six-digit code is asked for after your email address and password have been accepted. The code comes from an authenticator app and changes every few seconds, so a stolen password on its own is not enough to sign in.

You turn it on yourself, under Two Factor Authentication on your profile - see User options. A portal or an individual site can also require it, in which case you are prompted to set it up the next time you sign in.

Passkeys

A passkey signs you in with your device's fingerprint reader, face recognition or screen lock instead of a password. In a browser that supports them you are offered the chance to create one when you sign in, and the passkeys you have are listed under Passkeys on your profile - see User options.

For portal owners:

Microsoft SSO

A portal can have Microsoft SSO enabled. Where it is, the sign-in page offers to sign in with a Microsoft account. Choosing it hands the user to Microsoft to authenticate, and if the email address on the Microsoft account matches a user account in the portal, they are signed in as that user.