How to Manage Multiple Accounts With Lastpass

When I want to log on to Gmail, if I just bring up the gmail page, Lastpass responds like this:

 

Now “jumble” was not the user I wanted to log on.  I wanted to log on as “sleepy”  What happened?  Look at the three button in the upper right of the picture:  Autologin(13), AutoFill(16), Never…. 

·        Autologin(13):  This means I have 13 different gmail accounts that are set to Autologin:  when I bring  up Gmail, Lastpass will automatically fill in the Username and Password and “click” the Sign In button. 

·        Autofill(16):  This means I have 16 different gmail accounts that are set to Autofill:  when I bring Gmail, Lastpass will automatically fin in the Username and Password but you will have to click the sign in button.  WHEN YOU HAVE MULTIPLE LOGIN ACCOUNTS TO THE SAME WEB PAGE, THIS IS HOW EACH ACCOUNT WILL BE SET UP.  If you “Autologin,” you won’t be able to stop Lastpass before it clicks the Sign In button in order to change the Username and Password to another account.  In the above example, jumble was set to “autofill” or, if sleepy was also set to autofill, then, since, sleepy is alphanumerically after jumble, jumble was entered.

·        Never:  won’t fill in anything.

If you are not Autologged in, then you can change the user id and password by clicking on the autofill OR autologin button and the 13 or 16 different usernames will be listed in a dropdown.  I can’t show this with my example, but here’s link to a page from the Lastpass User Guide that shows it.  Click on the link you want; the username and password will be filled in and, depending on wither it is from the AutoLogin list or the Autofill list, the Sign In button will be automatically clicked.

How is “Autofill” or “AutoLogin” assigned to a site.  It is easy to see from the standard “edit” interface for a site:

There are 4 checkboxes near the bottom of the form:

·        Favorite:  Check this and this site will appear in your list of Favorites

·        Never AutoFill:  Check this and the username and password will not be filled in.  Note that the default for Lastpass is that it will fill in the username and password but it will not “click” the sign in button

·        AutoLogin:  Check this and Lastpass will click the sign-in button.  If you only have one username and password for a site, checking this provides the convenience of automatically logging into a site.  But if you have more than one username and password for a site, it can be very inconvenient!

·        Require Password Reprompt:  says that your Lastpass password is required in addition to the userid and password in order to log in to the site.  You probably won’t use this option, so it will probably be left unchecked.

Oh, I heard that question:  How do I get to the form to edit a site?  Click the red Lastpass button in the menubar of your browser.  On the resulting list, click “My Lastpass vault.”  It should be the first entry after the Logoff entry.

The result will be a list of all your sites.  I can’t show you much of a what I have, but here’s a snippet:

It goes on with all the categories you have chosen.  Clock on the little white arrowhead in front of the folder and the folder expands to its contents.  A single site has a line that looks like this:

To edit the site, which shows the form I discussed above, click the pencil icon.