Removing a Password from a Browser’s Saved Password List
Saving your Kerberos 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.
Web Login detects the use of saved passwords and prevents them from being used to log in to Boston University websites. 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
Windows
- Click the menu button and choose Preferences.
- Switch to the Security tab.
- Click on Saved Logins….
To eliminate all existing saved passwords, click Remove all. To eliminate specific saved passwords, locate the site within the Site column and click on it once to highlight it in blue. Then click the Remove button below. You can also remove all saved passwords by clicking the Remove All button. If you wish, deselect the option to Remember logins for sites. This will prevent passwords from being saved in the future. In older versions of Firefox, this option is in the Privacy tab instead of Security.
Mac OS X
- In the menu bar, open the Firefox menu.
- Select Preferences.
- Switch to the Security tab.
- Click on Saved Passwords.
To eliminate all existing saved passwords, click Remove all. To eliminate specific saved passwords, click View Saved Passwords and delete just those associated with weblogin.bu.edu. If you wish, deselect the option to Remember passwords. This will prevent passwords from being saved in the future. In older versions of Firefox, this option is in the Privacy tab instead of Security.
Microsoft Edge
To delete individual passwords:
- Select the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner
- Select the Settings option from the dropdown menu.
- Select Profiles tab from the Settings menu in the left column.
- In the Profiles tab, click the Passwords option to view the saved passwords for your user profile.
- Under the Profiles/Passwords tab menu, you will find a list of your saved passwords under the Saved Passwords category.
- Select and remove the passwords you would like deleted.
To delete all saved passwords:
- Open the Tools menu.
- Select Internet Options.
- Click Content.
- Under AutoComplete, click Settings.
- Click Delete AutoComplete history…
To prevent AutoComplete in the future, make sure AutoComplete is deselected for User names and passwords on forms, and then click on OK.
Safari
- Open the Safari menu.
- Select Preferences.
- Switch to the Autofill tab.
- Click the Edit button for Usernames and Passwords
- Delete the entry that corresponds with weblogin.bu.edu.
Opera
- Open the Tools menu.
- Select Advanced.
- Click on Password Manager.
- Delete the entry that corresponds with weblogin.bu.edu.