HACKER Q&A
📣 coronadisaster

Are service providers breaking the login process for password managers?


They Keep changing the typing process for login in for no apparent reason.... for example, one just changed it from [type user]{tab}[type pass]{tab}{enter} to [type user]{tab}{enter}{delay 1000}{tab}{tab}[type pass]{tab}{enter}.


  👤 jamieweb Accepted Answer ✓
Often the reason for having the user and password fields on separate 'screens' is to facilitate federated logon.

I.e. if someone has an account where they 'Logged in with Google' or it is connected to an IDAM solution like Okta or Duo, they don't have a password for the site so shouldn't be prompted for it.

As for the delay and any other nonsense, I'm not sure. Perhaps design winning over usability?


👤 edoceo
Some logins (Twilio, Namcheap) function poorly for me, others are great. Sometimes I can't get chrome to remember sign in on Google properties.

👤 tfehring
Do password managers really just send a series of keystrokes, as opposed to just detecting elements and populating them directly? This problem actually sounds familiar from the first time I tried using a password manager, over a decade ago. But I've been using 1password for about a year and haven't had any issues, including on multi-screen login forms.

👤 m0llusk
That looks more like a silly error than anything else. Password managers are unavoidable and help keep users on services.