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		amaccuish on Aug 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? Weirdly, Windows makes it easier to do this securely in that you can do NTLM authentication to authenticate local users (maybe MacOS as well, I believe internally it runs its own Kerberos server for the local machine).

lukevp on Aug 23, 2020 [–]

AFAIK you can only do this if you disable the local loopback check that prevents windows auth from passing credentials to local host webservers.

amaccuish on Aug 25, 2020 | [–]

Why did they put that in in the first place? To stop cracking of local passwords?

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