PassPack’s auto-login button can only log you into websites that it’s “learned” already. Teaching a new website is optional, but it’s also fairly easy. Here’s how to do it.
First, you’ll need to make sure that you have properly activated and installed your PassPack It! Button, and you know how to use it to login to a website.
Sometimes PassPack will ask you to teach it a new website. When this happens you will see an alert box with instructions.
These instructions should be fairly straight forward - read them, press OK to make the alert box go away, then click on the username field, the password field and the login button (in that order).
A dotted red border lets you know your click has been recorded.
Once you do this, you’ll see another alert box that will ask you if you think it worked or not:
If so, press OK, the page will refresh and you can press your PassPack It! button again to login in. It should work right away.
If not, or you’re not sure, just press cancel and no harm done. You won’t be able to use the auto-login until someone else decides to train PassPack on that site. If it’s a popular site, that could be soon. If not, it could be never… why not try again?
Some Tips
Click slowly. Give PassPack some time between clicks to register what is happening. Wait for the red border to appear. Usually a deep breath between clicks will work… and you’ll be more relaxed too [wink]. If there is no red border after a deep breath, then try clicking it again (just once, don’t go wild).
Use the Escape Key. If, when you click the field, the browser shows you a bunch of autofill options, then just press the ESC key on your keyboard and it’ll go away. This won’t interfere with training and you can proceed.
When Training Doesn’t Work
The internet is a varied an complex place. The PassPack It! button does its absolute best to learn new websites, but it can’t always manage. If you’ve repeatedly tried to teach it a new site but just can’t get it to work, then it’s best that you tell us here with a link to the site that isn’t working, a short description of what went wrong, and the type of browser you are using (Explorer? Firefox?).
There is no need to send us any login information - so please don’t.
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red dotted line appears around username and password box but not login button. Looks to be a javascript error when the login button is pressed.Hi Keith,
Can you tell me on what website that is happening? Feel free to email me directly.
Thanks.
Tara
How does one tell PassPack to forget its autologin training for a particular site? I invoked the training script. It required several attempts, but finally Passpack invoked the autologin. Unfortunately PassPack fills the username field with gibberish. How do I discard this autologin so I can try again?
@Aescferth
Just send us the link and we’ll take care of it for you.
Hi,
Is it possible to re-teach PassPack for a Site? I think something went wrong because I had the same site open in an other browser window when I was “teaching” PassPack. Now it’s filling in the correct username and password but it doesn’t “press” the login-button at the end.
I already deleted the entry and entered it again and I already disabled the autologin function and enabled it again. But nor of them worked.
Browser: Firefox 2.0.0.8
Site: http://www.login-3.loginserver.ch
Can you help me?
Beside that, GREAT (!!) tool you have here.. :)
Hi Sojo.
I had that removed. You didn’t do anything wrong, it’s simply one of those tough sites that we need to manually train.
We’re making some improvements to the auto-login script now, so this will be a good test case for us. Thanks!
For future reference: there is no need to delete or reinsert your entries - the auto-login and teaching process is completely unconnected to your account.
Cheers,
Tara
The main login on the USAA page works fine, however, once you are logged in and try to access any of your accounts, there is a secondary security check, where you have to enter a PIN into the website to view your account information. I could not train the auto login system to work with this, since there is no “login” form field visible — just a password field for the PIN and a submit button. How do I get auto login to work on pages like this?
Hello Ray,
I’m sorry, the auto-login can’t handle multiple page logins. You’ll have to copy and paste the info for the second page from your entry.
Sorry about that.
A typical domain name registry login page for managing domain name information doesn’t just have a username, password, and login button. In addition, it has the domain name field, which should be filled in by PassPack autologin.
It should be easy for you to generalize the autologin to enter any number of pieces of information in particular controls, instead of supporting only username/password logins.
Hi David,
Thanks for being so active on the blog! Yes, we could in theory generalize the process, and we might in the future (no promises though).
In the meantime, we went with the least common denominator principal, and tried to keep it simple.
Are there any other fields that you would finds useful?
Thanks,
Tara
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