Clarification of turingtest2 on automatic login

Robert(?)

Haven't we covered this?

• SHIFT + TAB
• TAB
• ENTER

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BTW, my bank - Chase.com - is doing the same thing (likely for a lot longer than Apple)

Maybe you are doing this deliberately in your posting of an image but your AppleID is not your user ID here (rccharles) but your email address (not a good idea to display in an image here which is maybe why you aren't showing it, but just to be clear...).

Oh, about 6 months ago the automatic password thing stopped working for me too but I presumed it was an Apple vs. Anybody-but-Apple (in my case TenFourFox) thing.

I don't know what ChitlinsCC's tab stuff means. 🙂

[ tt2 EDITed the post ] > Remember user name and stay logged in? [ to include his workaround for "Staying logged in" ]

Limnos wrote:

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Oh, about 6 months ago the automatic password thing stopped working for me too but I presumed it was an Apple vs. Anybody-but-Apple (in my case TenFourFox) thing.

I don't know what ChitlinsCC's tab stuff means. 🙂

The former is apparently an strategy that many "secure" sites are using - my Bank, Chase.com is one.

Workaround if you don;t wanna type your password every time, and have your browser 'remembering' it - works like a charm.

buenos tardes

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As I wrote in the other thread, you may need to visit your browser's settings pages to make sure it is able to cache your password. Both Chrome and Safari (other browsers may vary) seem to prompt to save passwords, but have a "no & don't ask again" option which you would need to reset if you've used it. Or it could be that your browser's password cache is corrupt and needs resetting for that reason.

For the avoidance of doubt the ability to save the password does not appear to be related to two-factor authentication. I've just signed into an alternate test account and the password has been saved, and can be reused on subsequent visits.

Hmm, actually I may have been using a browser that was already being "remembered"... 😕 I will clear the cache and try again. Nope still OK.

tt2

Hopefully I'm not confusing the matter. if I understand the problem correctly the two-step process was making it nessary to enter your user name as well as your password every half hour. Without two-step your user name is still saved.

I normally go directly to my profile page, and then click login, however a link to https://discussions.apple.com would be just as effective.

tt2

Hi bob, rccharles isn't using two-step, but my guess is something is preventing his browser remembering the password so he cannot simply click a button to sign in.

tt2

Aloha tt2.

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure if this was still a two-step verification problem or not.

Thanks again. Bob.

tt2

If you're interested in what that "something" may be, view the Page Source of the Login Page and attend to lines 340-367 - particularly how it is not "formatted" (like 'checked' javascript) AND the line 344 " display: block; "

As I said before, here and elsewhere, my bank does the same thing and I have seen it on other sites I cannot "cite" from memory

best

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I think in that context block means the element takes the full width of its parent. See http://learnlayout.com/display.html

As shown here in the image I posted earlier my password is happily cached and filled in for me. At a guess on about 7 or 8 unique browsers running on different devices and operating systems. I get to this screen by clicking the Login link at the top of any ASC page. A shortcut to https://discussions.apple.com/login.jspa rather than some more complicated url would make the process reliable and one click shorter.

Given I have also been able to cache the password of a new non-two-step account I don't think this site is actively preventing passwords from being saved, or interfering with the browser's attempts to make use of a saved password.

tt2