Removing a Password from the browser's saved password list
Saving your Kerberos or any other password in your Web browser's saved password list can expose the data it protects to anyone else who uses your computer, and possibly to others on the Internet.
Even though you may be the only person who can sit down in front of your computer to log in, you use your Web browser to open a communication channel to many sites on the Internet, opening up the potential for those sites to view information stored on your computer. While your browser is designed with the intention of safeguarding the information it stores, viruses, spyware, and malicious Web sites are designed to defeat security safeguards. The focus of many of today's viruses and spyware programs is identity theft, because that's where the money is.
Web Login detects the use of saved passwords and prevents them from being used to log in to Boston University Web sites. To gain access to Web Login-protected sites, you must first remove the password from your browser's saved password list, using the instructions below.
Mozilla Firefox:
From the menu choose Tools->Options->Security and click on Saved Passwords.... (If
you are using OS X, go to Firefox->Preferences->Security->Saved Password.) To
eliminate existing saved passwords you can click on "Remove all" (to
clear all) or click "View Saved Passwords" and delete just those associated
with weblogin.bu.edu. If you wish, deselect the option to "Remember passwords" which
will prevent all password-saving in the future. In older versions of Firefox, this option is in the Privacy tab instead of Security.
Netscape 7.x or Mozilla:
From the menu choose Tools->Password Manager
-> Manage Stored Passwords. On the "Passwords Saved" tab
you can either select and "Remove" only those associated with
weblogin.bu.edu or choose to "Remove All."
Internet Explorer:
To delete only one of the passwords saved in IE: when
you are in IE and a saved password is pre-filled on your screen, simply
highlight the username that
displays there, and press the Delete key to remove
just that one username/password combination from IE. Internet Explorer
will then prompt you to confirm that you do want to delete it.
To delete all saved
IE passwords, go to to Tools->Internet Options->Content->AutoComplete->Clear
Passwords. To prevent AutoComplete in the future, make sure
AutoComplete is deselected for both "Prompt me to save passwords" and "User
names and passwords on forms." Then click on OK. (In OS X this is located
under Preferences->Network->Site Passwords.)
Safari:
From the menu choose Preferences->Autofill. Click the Edit button for Usernames
and Passwords and delete the entry that corresponds with weblogin.bu.edu.
Opera:
Go to Tools->Advanced->Wand Passwords and delete the entry that corresponds
with weblogin.bu.edu. If you want to shut off the Wand completely, go to Tools->Preferences->Wand
and turn off "Let the Wand remember passwords."
