How to populate character x and y of a memorable password

TBoned87

Hi

Annoyingly a lot of sites still use the method of provide character 3 and 6 of your memorable password.

Although you can store it and bring it up in large type which makes identifying that character easier..thats useful.

Is there a trick to storing that word so it auto populates, i am guessing its quite tricky and varies by site, based on how they identify those fields?

Thanks in advance

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1Password Version: 8.x.x
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OS Version: MacOS
Browser:_ Edge

steph.giles

Hey @TBoned87,

You are right in that filling on these websites can be tricky for 1Password. Can you point me at the page in question so we can do some testing and best advise?

Thank you!

TBoned87

Hi there
Well as an example TSB bank login do it.

My guess is I need to store each character here in the appropriate labeled input box
1st box
<input label="charXPos" class="col-xs-12 form-control ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-valid-maxlength ng-touched" name="charXPos" id="charXPos" placeholder="2nd" maxlength="1" ng-change="checkValidation(memorableInformationForm, 'charXPos','X')" ng-keypress="blockSpecialChar($event)" ng-model="chars.testX" required="">

2nd box
<input label="charYPos" class="col-xs-12 form-control ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-valid-maxlength ng-touched" id="charYPos" name="charYPos" placeholder="5th" maxlength="1" ng-change="checkValidation(memorableInformationForm, 'charYPos','Y')" ng-keypress="blockSpecialChar($event)" ng-model="chars.testY" required="">

3rd box
<input label="charZPos" class="col-xs-12 form-control ng-pristine ng-untouched ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-valid-maxlength" id="charZPos" name="charZPos" placeholder="9th" maxlength="1" ng-change="checkValidation(memorableInformationForm, 'charZPos','Z')" ng-keypress="blockSpecialChar($event)" ng-model="chars.testZ" required="">

I have by using the save login and entering these characters first been able to store the individual chars, as separate fields in the 1password record. (not ideal as when or if i change that then I have to update all those fields also)

I was thinking in 1Password maybe a field that contains a password can be marked in such a way that user can pull out each character when prompted

In this case the password chars were just stored as
Character 2: etc.. in 1 password.

Once you have the naming convention I think having an option to split the memorable word into characters that can be accessed individually would work.

Its a tricky interaction

TBoned87

I just noticed it actually stored it as a field type you cannot add through the UI. (After using the save login after filling the form out)

This I thought was type 'password', but it's not.

How do you manually add field type of 'special character'?

steph.giles

Thank you for sending this over @TBoned87

Banking websites are known for making it notoriously difficult for password managers to autofill. I am unable to access the specific page to test it out but based on the information you have provided I’m not sure we will be able to auto fill these fields.

It looks like the ID of the fields in this case is ‘charXPos’, ‘charYPos’ and ‘charZPos’. I’m not sure labelling the fields after these will help in this scenario as it’s likely that each time you log in, the website will require a different 3 characters. The ID of the field will remain the same but the place holder text telling you which character to input will differ.

I think in this scenario I would recommend saving each character of your password as you have done so and then dragging and dropping the characters into the fields when required.

I hope this makes sense, I’m sorry I can’t be of more assistance!

TBoned87

OK thanks I do like your software i always recommend it to family and friends and trying to suggest we use it at work to.

TBoned87

OK thanks I do like your software i always recommend it to family and friends and trying to suggest we use it at work too.

steph.giles

Thank you so much @TBoned87 😊

Let us know if there's anything else we can help with!