Any way to hotkey / F key a password?

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Any way to hotkey / F key a password?

I'm on a couple of car forums, due to a security breach of the forums owner (totally unrelated to password security it turns out!) the forums now require a 10 character (at least 1 upper case, 1 lower case, 1 numeric and 1 special character) password. Is there a way I can program a function key or another key with this password? I'm on Mac Pro's running El Capitan.

FWIW, neither my brokerage, bank or any of the credit card's I use require a password of this complexity, only the frickin' car forums!!! This is totally absurd but that's beside the fact!

Mac Pro G5, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 9:07 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 22, 2016 9:37 AM in response to motonut993

Any reason why you don't want Safari to just remember your passwords?

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motonut993 Author

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Sep 22, 2016 4:37 PM in response to motonut993

(duh!) Thanks. I use Chrome but I'll let Chrome remember these p/w's. Thanks again.

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BobHarris

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Sep 22, 2016 7:06 PM in response to motonut993

As Luis Sequeira1 says, just save the password in Safari.

If the web site uses non-standard password prompt such that Safari cannot see it as a password field, you could use Applications -> Automator to create a "Service" for your browser that outputs the password, then use System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts to associate a hotkey with the service.

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