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Wife Crazy Login Password
I am in the process of moving all of our passwords into 1Password. However, I discovered that my wife has her Firefox set to auto login, but can't remember her user name and password. So, although she can use it, she can't change update the password. The fact that on setup, auto login is the default makes this doubly frustrating. So, is there any way to get to the password?
Your wife probably doesn't have a Firefox account. If you need to export her passwords saved in Firefox to 1Password, you can export the data to a file using the instructions in the following article: Export login data from Firefox
Hi,Managing passwords is in Firefox is pretty simple. At the far-right of the toolbar, open the menu and choose Passwords. That should take you to about:logins.From there, you can search, edit, remove, and do a lot more. For more detailed instructions, check out the following article: Password Manager - Remember, delete and edit logins and passwords in Firefox
Hi Chris. Thanks for responding, but it doesn't solve my problem. The problem is that, although Firefox will auto login when started up, we can't see what they are. My wife's user name and password aren't in Firefox's saved login section. They're someplace else. Where, I don't know. The bottom line is when you go into her account and try to change the password, the first thing it does is ask for the existing password . . . which we don't know. So, it's a catch-22.
What I need is a way around this. She's had the same email address on file with Firefox for many years, so I'm not sure why they don't give you a way to change your password without knowing the existing one. As auto login is the default, this makes it a booby trap if it also doesn't save the login info. Is there really no way around this?
Question. Why don't you ask her for the login? If she has another user account on the same computer with password lock there not much anyone can do besides the account holder. I do think we are here to help but not to break/access another user login password-you should talk to the account holder to help with that.
The only way to find the user name and login if she logs into the computer in question to get access to the login and password. That is my understanding of how Browser logins work-the user in question has to login to the account and they will gain access to the login and password. And From my own experiences of trials/error there is really no other way to really gain access to those logins.
Just to be clear, she IS logged into the computer, but that doesn't make the user name and password visible when Firefox is set up for auto login. The first thing I did was to have her try to change the password. BUT, to do that you have to know what the current one is, but it's only shown as black dots. It's a catch-22.
Can you click on the password and give us the screenshot of that but blacking out important data - so we can see what it's showing you? I might need to go do this when I get home to see what mine is showing me as well. But I don't login into the Browser per say to track my user account so that might be different. But I will give my own saved password login a try to see what it shows me.
Do you mean "Password" in the Firefox menu when you click on the three horizontal lines in the upper right hand cornet of the window? It's a list of logins longer than you can see in one picture, but my wife's login info isn't there. Believe me, I've looked through that list many times.
"Do you mean "Password" in the Firefox menu when you click on the three horizontal lines in the upper right hand cornet of the window? It's a list of logins longer than you can see in one picture, but my wife's login info isn't there. Believe me, I've looked through that list many times."
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A bit of jumping around, a possible iOS update, a reboot, and multiple logins for the same Apple ID and iCloud account, but for most users this resolves the issue. Contrary to some other reports on discussion boards, you do not need to log out or change the Apple ID to resolve the issue, simply verifying the password and rebooting is usually enough.
Even though passwords are far less prevalent than ever before, they are still being used worldwide. The primary reason is that a password-based login system is the easiest and the cheapest to implement. However, we expect passwordless to take over soon.
Thanks so much for stopping by the Apple Support Communities. If we understand, you're unable to log into your Mac until you reset your login password using your Apple ID. Then, you must go through the same process the next time you try to login. We are happy to help!
Based on what you've described, we would recommend following the steps outlined in the Apple Support articles If you forgot your Mac login password - Apple Support followed by If you can't reset your Mac login password - Apple Support. 2ff7e9595c
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