# Recommended authentication flow

**URL:** https://forums.losant.com/t/recommended-authentication-flow/189
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 28, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/recommended-authentication-flow/189 "2016-06-28T21:12:42Z")
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### Author: ![Brandon\_Cannaday](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/brandon_cannaday/32/14_2.png) [@Brandon\_Cannaday](https://forums.losant.com/u/Brandon_Cannaday)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/recommended-authentication-flow/189/13 "2016-07-14T15:50:37Z")

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Awesome. I described an upcoming change to virtual devices [here](https://forums.losant.com/t/send-device-attribute-updates-from-a-workflow/201/2) that will eliminate this confusion. We’re going to replace virtual devices with virtual attributes. So in your case you would use a standalone device with all virtual attributes and be able to connect and authenticate as that device normally.

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