How to get safari to suggest a password

I was frustrated by this also. What worked for me was to click the Safari Menu ... Safari > Preferences > Passwords, enter the website address into the search box then scroll down the the appropriate one remove the password from my Macbook (removing it from the Keychain for my iDevices.)

Then I went to the site where I wanted the stronger password and pretended I'd forgotten my password and went though their "forgot password" routine. This sent me an email with a link to reset the password. When the website asked me for my password to be entered twice Safari proposed a suggested I selected the proposed by clicking on the box that showed the generated password and Safari then filled both password slots and created the password for all my Apple devices.

I wrote this out in detail for anyone down to the very beginner level who can get lost at the very first "do this, do that" shorthand some experienced Mac users just know. Hopefully this is 1) on topic and 2) helps someone out. 🙂

it's cumbersome... but go to a site that it does suggest one for when creating a new account like Yahoo, type it into notepad, then cut and paste that. Safari may ask if you want it to remember the password, say yes and a secure password is now stored in the keychain. Otherwise, log out and log back in and paste the password once again (you might have to use the shortkey command) and Safari will prompt and ask to save then

Another solution for generating passwords up to 31 characters in lenth is to locate Password Assistant and put it in the Dock. It's there whenever you need it:

It's part of Keychain Access but can be dragged to the Dock for easy access.

OT

It's part of the Keychain Access app located in the Applications/Utilities folder. Select a password and use the menu:

In the next window click on the button highlighted in this screenshot:

Create the password you want, copy it and then close Keyword Access and use the password where you want. This MacWorld article describes the app and a 3rd party app that will call it up: Password Assistant exposes OS X's built-in ... - Macworld

Trying to fugure out the same thing. Id like to create stronger paswwords for existing profile. Can't figure it out. Keychain has always been excesively complicated and this looks no different.

And now the more I think about it only working with Safari, I assume it will almost be useless on your other devices seeing that most sites or utilities you use paswwords for have thier own applications which I assume this new feature wont work witht them. Youd have to use safari on you phone for everything instead of the respected stand alone apps which would be frustrating in its own right.

Any help or comments with more info would be a great.

Good luck all.

G

Actually, that's not entirely true. If you generated a password using Safari while creating a user account for some service, you can go to the settings app on your iDevice, and go to the Safari settings. There is a section that contains your saved passwords for which you have to enter a pass code in order to access it. Just look for the saved user account and tap it. Then you should see your generated password in plain text. If you tap the password, you can copy it and paste it into any app.

However, I do find it annoying that you cannot force Safari to generate a password in a password textfield. I did tell Safari to override site settings that would not allow the browser to save passwords, but there are still forms that it misses, mainly when you want to change your password for example.

iMac late 2012

OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)

Safari 7.0.4 (9537.76.4)

iCloud keychain is turned on, Safari Autofill and Passwords correctly set

No sign anywhere of "Password Assistant." Looked in System Report, System Library. Obviously, searched with Spotlight, too.

Even Apple Support sent me to "null/Article ID: PH17178" and then to "Have Safari generate and remember passwords. Article ID: TI242" but in each case the page was blank.

Is this part of the nightmare scenario that is Mavericks?

Thanks, Old T! I think I thought (logically, to me at least) that "password assistant" would pop up in Spotlight, but just plain didn't do the obvious File/New etc. And the MacWorld article flew under my radar too. So: my imperfect storm, cleared up by you. Thanks again.