Remember passwords for pw-protected notebooks

[jakebiesinger]

I have an SSL encrypted, password-protected notebook with a tough-to-guess-or-remember password. I'd like to leverage my browser's "Remember this password?" functionality so I don't have to remember anything. Currently, no such prompt shows up when logging in.

Stack Overflow says you need to actually submit the form? Not a web guy myself, though I'd be happy to take try hacking on this. But I have no idea where to even look in the source.

[Carreau]

Good point... the problem is that the form does already do a submit... Investigating.

[jakebiesinger]

Shooting in the dark... perhaps because it's over https?

[Carreau]

Probably not, password over http should never be used, so their would be no reason to retain them.
Wild guess would be that password would not be stored if the host is localhost... still need to be checked.

[jakebiesinger]

I'm working from a remote host, not localhost. Thanks for looking into it!

[Carreau]

Ah ! Just had the revelation a few minutes ago !
Need a another field to enter the username (tried and work) ! Otherwise browser don't try to retain the password !

Anyway, soon the credential should remain between server restart, but we'll see if we can do something like hidden username field (not sure if it works)...

[minrk]

closed by #3373.