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>By far the biggest problem with LastPass is that it sometimes just doesn't apply (or misapplies) the password or username to the appropriate form entries, and
by zupzupper 7y ago
>By far the biggest problem with LastPass is that it sometimes just doesn't apply (or misapplies) the password or username to the appropriate form entries, and I have to go find it and copy it. Occasionally it also misses the saving of a new password (that it generated) and I have to put it in the vault by hand. I suspect this is a really hard problem given the massive variety of forms out there, but would be curious to hear if other password managers never have these issues.
Agreed, ambiguously named form input fields cause all kinds of havok, I helped our UX team track down one in our application because it was breaking my lastpass =)
For the second issue, I've just adjusted my workflow to accommodate LastPass's peculiarities. I just click "Generate Secure Password", copy it to the clipboard and fill the form myself. Then I have a copy of the password on the clipboard should LP miss adding the site properly.
While it's a slight pain to work around that particular issue, it's far better than what I used to do with regards to password reuse.
- 1024core 7y ago> copy it to the clipboard and fill the form myself. I'm not that familiar with mobile dev, but could a rogue app just sit in the background, making a copy of whatever's in the clipboard?
- shawnz 7y agoYes, Keepass for example avoids this by pasting some of the characters with the clipboard and some of the characters by simulating keypresses. See: https://keepass.info/%0D/help/v2/autotype_obfuscation.html https://keepass.info/%0D/help/v2/autotype_obfuscation.html Lastpass mitigates the issue somewhat by clearing the clipboard after a certain amount of time.
- yani 7y agoIf you have such an application installed... the system has already been compromised.
- jsutton 7y agoLastPass recently made a change to how they save generated passwords, it'll prompt you right after filling it instead of waiting for the login to succeed.
- jzl 7y agoI was very happy when I started seeing that, that's been a huge improvement.
- fencepost 7y agoIf you're within the same session, the Generate Password popup likely has a down-arrow next to it that will show you a list of recently generated passwords. This has been useful occasionally.