Creating login fields in Livecode that will prompt for and accept input from password managers like 1Password

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rodneyt
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Creating login fields in Livecode that will prompt for and accept input from password managers like 1Password

Post by rodneyt » Sat Jul 03, 2021 5:41 am

Scenario:
- you wish to create a password entry form
- you want users to be able to use password manager for entry
- you want the password manager to recognize the fields as username and password entry fields
- you want to the password manager to prompt to manage (ie store/retrieve) passwords.

Is there a way of doing this?

If not, should we have a feature enhancement to be able to create a field of type/property IsUsername or type/property isPassword which, when displayed as an application will be compatible with password managers?

We don't want to be in the business of storing user passwords (no matter if we can store them encrypted or not.

Browser widget and password managers
- because the browser widget cannot/does not have ability to install browser extensions it is not possible to support password managers within login forms in web pages.
- interesting side note if you have a website that does have secure login and you create a 2nd browser widget instance it shares the context of the first widget (ie navigating to secure content in 2nd widget will not prompt you to sign in.

stam
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Re: Creating login fields in Livecode that will prompt for and accept input from password managers like 1Password

Post by stam » Sat Jul 03, 2021 6:07 pm

Hi rodneyt - 1Password, i think has a REST API you can use, but not sure of the details as have not used this yet. Check on their site?

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