During a recent session with an apple advisor, he took over my screen to help me, and I'certain that during the session I displayed a page that listed all my passwords "in clear". I'm trying to repeat this and can't remember the method. I've tried,

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During a recent session with an apple advisor, he took over my screen to help me, and I'certain that during the session I displayed a page that listed all my passwords "in clear". I'm trying to repeat this and can't remember the method. I've tried,

During a recent, very helpful, session with an Apple tech advisor, I'm certain that during the two hour telephone session, I was displaying a page that showed all my passwords "in the clear". I've tried repeating this process, and have forgotten how it was done. I've tried the Apple presences, and keychain, but keep getting asked for passwords that I'm trying to find!!!! Ie I don't know, either WHICH password is being referred to, or what it might be.

Please help!!

George from Pembs

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Sep 1, 2015 9:17 AM

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Answer 1

dominic23

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Sep 1, 2015 10:35 AM in response to georgefrompembs

Safari > Preferences > Password

Checkmark the box beside "Show passwords for selected websites" at the bottom left corner.

Authenticate when the dialog appears and select the website from the list.

Password will be revealed.

Keychain?

Finder > Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access

Select the Account, double click on it

Enable “Show password…..” when the window opens up.

Enter the user password and “click “Allow”

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

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Sep 1, 2015 10:36 AM in response to georgefrompembs

The only password that Keychain Access would ask for is the keychain password, which is usually the same as the login password. You won't find that password in the clear anywhere, unless you deliberately put it in a file.

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