Password Keychain

See the thread on this page for the workaround for MacRumors. I'm too lazy to type it out again or link it.

 

keychain in Safari does the best that it can with the HTML it is given. If the website concerned (e.g. this one) does weird stuff, keychain won't work as expected. There are plenty of websites that have login forms and password change features that work perfectly well with Safari/keychain.

 

There would be no point.

The idea is that Safari detects input password fields and password change fields on web pages. If it can do that successfully, it will fill in the missing info when you visit a site and update passwords in keychain when you create or change them.

If Safari cannot do this - and some websites do make this virtually impossible because of the way they are designed - there would be little point in you managing the keychain password.

You might want to consider a 3rd party application for remembering your important stuff, like 1Password or eWallet.

 

That's not true. And what you are proposing is not password management at all.

If you want to find out what a stored password is in Safari, click Preferences, Passwords, Show Passwords for selected websites. Enter your device passcode (since it won't let any old Tom, Dick or Harry lookat your passwords).

 

can you name one? I've been trying unsuccessfully with many pages - always same behavior: safari proposes password, but then does not remembers it (during password change process - it's working fine with new accounts creation).

This is not limited to macrumors site only - same discussion here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1670683

 

bbc.co.uk
imdb.com
www.theguardian.com/uk
hotels.com

...

I imagine that as sites migrate towards the kind of standards that you find with HTML 5 (e.g. input pattern attributes) keychain will be far more likely to get it right every time.

 

Thanks
I have tested imdb.com and indeed its working correctly during password change.
So we may only hope most webservices will standardize their password process soon.
I am just wondering how 1Password resolved this

 

I don't have 1Password myself, so I can only guess. But I wouldn't be surprised if it kept detailed records of form layouts and the fields that they contain. As opposed to Safari / keychain, which records only the site, user name and password, and expects websites to be well designed. It's not an unreasonable proposition.

eWallet, for example, has an editor that allows you to specifically change its recorded fields and what those fields mean.