Password for password

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi
When trying to check a password am asked to enter a password. What password do you use to get that password?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@jp089 Your OS password, the one you use to login in your computer.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg

do not have one. after being locked of my pc because I failed entering the password right(finger print reader). decided might be best to do without it.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@jp089 You may have set up your OS to not require a login, but you have a password that you've created when installing the OS or that was given to you.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

If you don't have an OS password set, when asked for your OS password, try just pressing enter.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@jp089 said in Password for password:

do not have one. after being locked of my pc because I failed entering the password right(finger print reader). decided might be best to do without it.

Did the problem start right after that? OS password changes can sometimes cause your passwords to be inaccessible. But, you should no if that's the case and going to the URL opera://settings/passwords wouldn't show any entries that were created before the OS password change.

[stevenjcee]

stevenjcee last edited by stevenjcee

Why do I need to enter my OS password, to see my Opera password, especially when I'm already signed in to Opera???
I just created a new one, which Opera saved, yet it didn't change in my keychain, and even when I go to my account page here, it won't show me my own password, only option is to change it again! I don't want to give Opera my OS password, why does it need that? That only puts all my personal data at risk, just to see my own password, for an account I'm already logged into?
This is ridiculous.... Oh, I somehow got taken to the Windows section, but I guess it's the same principle.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stevenjcee last edited by

@stevenjcee That's how Chromium works,it encrypts your saved passwords using your OS login credentials.
So to show them, Opera needs to decrypt the data and, therefore, asks the OS password for that.

[stevenjcee]

stevenjcee @leocg last edited by

@leocg Well, how does it know my OS password to begin with? I didn't give it to Opera, or another browser, besides maybe Safari. And that still doesn't explain why I can be auto-logged into Opera, yet Opera can't tell me the password it just saw, in order to log me in? Really? Please tell me how that makes any sense at all?
Some sites may require a two-step login, where if there's any question as to whether it was me, they send a code to my phone or email, I put that in, and am on my way. Why it asks for my OS password, is wack, and I'm not going to ever give it to them.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stevenjcee last edited by

@stevenjcee It doesn't know your OS password, that's why you are asked to provide it

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stevenjcee last edited by

@stevenjcee You can be logged in to a site even if you never save the password for it, those things are not related. What keep you logged in are cookies and related stuff.

[stevenjcee]

stevenjcee @leocg last edited by

@leocg If it doesn't know my OS password, then how will it know if what I fill in is correct? The whole point is for Opera to verify if I'm me, so this makes even less sense.
And why is that little red, round circle with the black "CBS" eye logo still sitting on this page?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stevenjcee last edited by leocg

@stevenjcee The OS will inform that the password is incorrect. The prompt you see asking for your OS password is from the OS itself and not from Opera.

[stevenjcee]

stevenjcee @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thanks, that explains it...