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[bizarrojack]

I have a crap-ton of passwords, and I have been kind of irritated by my bank website. I use firefox's master password, but my bank has finally outsmarted me and prevented firefox from using it to save the login & password. *Both* the username and the password are long strings of unguessable gibberish, and since they're not entered in the same

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[steeltoe]

If you use a mac, 1password is super!

[bizarrojack]

thanks! I do have a macbook, also. I just don't use it for very much, compared to the pc (desktop). I think I've seen other stuff, like a firefox addon or something, that do similar one-becomes-many password systems, I guess using hashes or something. I think I might start shopping around for one that works over several computers / platforms.

[snidegrrl]

you need to blog that story about the guy approaching you in the starbucks.

[bizarrojack]

But then I'll have nothing to talk about ot people in person!

[necrocannibal]

PNC is like the Amish bank except they are the Pennsylvania Douche

[necrocannibal]

I have already forgotten the password to "Keepass" once and it was no picnic. You may have to resort to physical storage media, a piece of paper tucked somewhere with no contextual information.

[bizarrojack]

yikes, that experience would drive me crazy.

[bizarrojack]

Its nice to see I'm not alone in this. If I find some better situation, I'll make sure I let you know what I found.

I sent a complaint to them about it, and got a form letter indicating (in so many words) that they did not read or understand my issue.

[bizarrojack]

I got it working. Part 1 is what I already had a solution for, using the Web Developer Toolbar. When I go to the "User ID" field (which is a long string of gibberish, for me, because it was rejecting everything I wanted to use), I click the "Forms" button, and do "enable auto completion." There are lots of Add-ons that make that possible by different methods. AFter that, I can doubleclick the blank and pick it from the drop-down.

It turns out that the second part (the part that was confounding me) was only failing because of a firefox setting. In "about:config", signon.autofillForms was set to false, away from the default of true. When I set it to true, it started working normally with the password manager.

I learned that it is still possible to have problems though, because if there are more than one password saved then there is no way for it to pick, because there is no username to base it on. The "Secure Login" addon can help, but it adds extra work.