# Need Help Utilizing Gradio Auth page on HF space
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**Author:**  [@prismglider](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fprismglider)%5C
**Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:01am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fneed-help-utilizing-gradio-auth-page-on-hf-space%2F80085%2F1 "2024-04-04T03:01:42Z")
I’m having some trouble with a gradio HuggingFace space that uses the builtin Gradio auth page to pass a username and API token from a third party service.
How can I store each user’s token and username in a dict that is tied to the user’s login session? This is so I can look up their token/username later for doing API calls, without user’s accidentally using a previous user’s data.
My first solution was using a form of request.username to get a unique session, but this seemed to only be working when the user was logged in to HF. I cannot find a way to use the OS library to generate a unique session ID otherwise, but I tried several methods in this terminal ([ttw - a Hugging Face Space by mikeee](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mikeee/ttw))
I then tried to get the current user’s IP but it seems like gr.Request is not available at time of login, I was not able to pass (request : gr.Request) while in the authentication step. The login page would succesfully take the credentials but would never load the app, it would get stuck.
I think I need to be using gr.State() with the token and username but the documentation on it’s utilization has been a bit confusing. An example of using it to store log in details passed through the builtin Auth page would be a big help.
This is similar to this issue ftr ([How to persist Gradio authentication username information on the next page after login](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-persist-gradio-authentication-username-information-on-the-next-page-after-login%2F56674))
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**Author:**  [@akuysal](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fakuysal)%5C
**Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:36am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fneed-help-utilizing-gradio-auth-page-on-hf-space%2F80085%2F2 "2024-04-04T03:36:19Z")
Last time I asked a similar question on [How to persist Gradio authentication username information on the next page after login](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-persist-gradio-authentication-username-information-on-the-next-page-after-login%2F56674) URL, I didn’t get a reply and the options I tried didn’t work. It was an optional thing that I was planning to do. So, I didn’t search for later solutions. It was a long time ago, so probably there may be some other recent solutions. But, at that time, I couldn’t find.
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**Author:**  [@prismglider](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fprismglider)%5C
**Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fneed-help-utilizing-gradio-auth-page-on-hf-space%2F80085%2F3 "2024-04-05T18:01:14Z")
Hey so I was overcomplicating this a lot because of a different bug that I was encountering (gradio auth page is not working in safari or some private tabs).
global credentials{}
credentials[username] = pass
This is to save the password of the login.
Then you can look up the auth username anytime with/
Function(request : gr.Request)
request.username
and you can get the password/token back with
credentials[request.username]
good luck!
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**Author:**  [@system](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsystem)%5C
**Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 6:01am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fneed-help-utilizing-gradio-auth-page-on-hf-space%2F80085%2F4 "2024-04-06T06:01:23Z")
Closed on April 6, 2024, 6:01am UTC
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