[Cialug] Password managers

[Todd Walton]

I like LastPass. It works well for me. What's bugging me lately though is
the trend of websites breaking their login process over two screens.

Google, for example. Some others. You have to put in your email or
username, click, and then it loads a screen where you put your password in.
Most of the time LastPass doesn't see that second screen as containing a
password field. (Though it does with Google, thank goodness, which is the
bulk of my two-screen logging in.)

I believe the reason they're going to two screen logins is because then
they can plugin all sorts of different authentication methods on the second
screen. You find out who's logging in, then load in their method, instead
of having a password field that might not apply to everyone.

Oh, and another thing! Friggin Evernote has a username *and* password field
on their homepage, and it always gets me. LastPass fills it in like it
should and I click, but it's not for login. It's to sign up. It tells me I
already have an account.

To sign *in* you have to click a drop down, then click a link, and then get
the login page. It's completely stupid. I've thought for years that they'd
realize how stupid it is and change it, but they haven't.

--
Todd




On Thu, May 24, 2018, 10:55 L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Upgraded to FF 60 earlier this week, .. and was forced to start using
> LastPass 4. Unfortunately, this is a HUGE step backwards in
> functionality, and it appears that the LP crew is officially
> abandoning Firefox and platforms other than Apple, and, in general, any
> LP usage for sites other than mass market (e.g. abandoning of BasicAuth
> fillins):
>
>         https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=275
>
> So, ..
>
>  * LP has abandoned FF entirely - functionality is just not there, sort of
> like stumbling in the dark waiting to stub your toe on a feature no
> longer viable;
>
>  * LP 4 refuses to cache the login email;
>
>  * LP 4 is a total abortion WRT efficiency! The UI is forced to endure
> favicons for EVERY site, and even falling back to LP 3 compatibilty is not
> a permane setting.
>
>  * Worse yet, the UI has reverted to opening a ***TAB*** for what used to
> be a ***POPU***!!!
>
> Has anyone found a usable vault that works with FF basic auth (at the very
> least)?
>
>         TIA!
>
>         Lee
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