Apple generated passwords

[Mercdriver]

Advice please on the above, I am trying to access my sky e mail yahoo on a PC with Windows dreadful 10. The password I use was generated by my Apple I pad but having no luck entering the password onto the PC

The password is in format abcd-efgh- .... do the dashes count as part of the password or just an aid to reading?

[spitfire-ian]

Mercdriver said:

Advice please on the above, I am trying to access my sky e mail yahoo on a PC with Windows dreadful 10. The password I use was generated by my Apple I pad but having no luck entering the password onto the PC

The password is in format abcd-efgh- .... do the dashes count as part of the password or just an aid to reading?

The dashes do count as part of the password.

[mw88]

If the password has any uppercase i's or lowercase L's, it's a pain to try and type

Depending on the font, I (Uppercase i) and l (Lowercase L) may appear identical.

[3george]

There is a plug-in you can add to Chrome which allows access to Apple Keychain passwords directly without having to re-enter them.

3g

[Mercdriver]

Thanks spitfire ian, chocks away!

[MB140]

If you still have access to an Apple device you can see the passwords stored in the keychain.

Maybe look in there.

This is the main reason I NEVER allow them to self generate passwords.

I have a method which I remember which allows me to generate pseudo random passwords depending on the URL of the website. This way I can always work out what my password would be.

[Alex Z]

MB140 said:

If you still have access to an Apple device you can see the passwords stored in the keychain.

Maybe look in there.

This is the main reason I NEVER allow them to self generate passwords.

I have a method which I remember which allows me to generate pseudo random passwords depending on the URL of the website. This way I can always work out what my password would be.

PasswordPistonheads ?

[MB140]

Alex Z said:

MB140 said:

If you still have access to an Apple device you can see the passwords stored in the keychain.

Maybe look in there.

This is the main reason I NEVER allow them to self generate passwords.

I have a method which I remember which allows me to generate pseudo random passwords depending on the URL of the website. This way I can always work out what my password would be.

PasswordPistonheads ?

Nope lol. It’s quite a bit more complicated than than. PasswordPistonheads0x where x is the number of letters in the url. ;-)

[Mercdriver]

Thanks for response Mb140, why do you not let it supply passwords? If you do not know the access code to open the I pad then you cannot access the passwords in the list, or am I being naive?

Can a five year old hack into the I pad and access the passwords?

[Roguexcess]

Can a five year old hack into the I pad and access the passwords?
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Not without having some serious forensic software. A good trick is to add your face/finger ID as a second profile

[MB140]

Mercdriver said:

Thanks for response Mb140, why do you not let it supply passwords? If you do not know the access code to open the I pad then you cannot access the passwords in the list, or am I being naive?

Can a five year old hack into the I pad and access the passwords?

The reason I don’t let it supply random passwords is down to the fact that if I don’t have an Apple device on me then I can’t remember hundreds of random passwords. Hence if I wanted to login to a website I couldn’t without my Apple product on me. If I have a pseudo random way of generating my own codes then I can always work the password out without having access to a non Apple product.

Like for example the time recently when I walked down to my mums and left my phone at my dads place. Got to my mums and needed to retrieve some information from my email. If I had let Apple put some random Ashton-akfhsi-gkepm-hsdjfy in then there would have been no way to log in to the account.

Now because I use my own method (which I’m not going to discuss here) to generate my passwords then I can work it out.

Sorry I’m not really explaining this well. What I really mean is. If I let Apple store all the passwords in keychain (which I currently do but not random generated by Apple, there my own random way that I know how to work the password out). Then without an Apple device I have to remember them all.

Using my own method. I can access all my website/accounts/social media from any device in the world as I can work out the passwords (might take a minute or two but it can be done).

If you just have Apple generated random passwords stored in apples keychain how do you access your accounts/websites/social media from say a friends windows 10 laptop.

I suppose there are other multi platform password manager applications out there (1Password application springs to mind) that means you just need to remember 1 password for the password manager application but I’m not sure I like the idea of having all my passwords protected by 1 master password (having said that I suppose Apple keychain is just protected by 1 password.

Edited by MB140 on Thursday 19th August 11:55

[Mercdriver]

Thanks for detailed answer MB140, most helpful.

We both have Apple phones and I pads cos it is one charger when we are on holiday so not having an Apple product when we go out is unlikely but I appreciate your comments above and will have a think about your recommendation.

Thanks again