Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

Re:Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms by Scooty on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:08PM (#19173175)

The few times I've seen this (Google and Amazon I think), my password manager (Lastpass) has had no problem, but I've run into several sites where simple two input and a button login forms don't autofill correctly. Usually the username field will get cleared when the password gets autofilled, so I have to manually paste the username.

I wish password managers would become popular with non-tech people already. I can't wait for a day where there's just a "Sign in manually" link for the few people that manage to remember their 1200 usernames/passwords. Password managers shouldn't need to rely on autofilling inputs at all.

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Re:Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms by SlowRobotAhead on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:26PM (#19173368)

Agreed. I have a handful of split username then password on a new page sites, and LastPass handles those just fine.

It doesn’t do well with banks that think they are being clever though.

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Re:Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms by swiftcoder on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:10AM (#19177190)

I'm honestly not sure why the password managers don't offer federated login (with SSO helped out by their browser extension). As a website owner, I'd love to be able to throw a "login with lastpass" link on the sign in page.

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Re:Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms by Too on Sunday February 17, 2019 @02:30AM (#19183163)

OpenID provides federated login and is already widely used. It's not frictionless however and didn't really take off as much as people first expected due to usability problems with login-urls as user ids and anonymity to website owners.

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