Good morning all,
I tried setting up the webroot password manager which I have discovered is simply lastpass that has been well and firmly crippled. I can not on my own home pc, save my password manager password, I need to keep typing my painful password every time I open and close my secure browser on my personal PC, which is awful.
I can not simply right click a password field to fill it in, I need to go to a menu and select fill from a dropdown off the toolbar.
The password vault can not be accessed with a single click and then sorted/searched (I have some 500 sites in my vault), instead to actually see the randomly generated password I have to find the site in the menu by hovering and select edit from the right click menu.
I mean if you are going to license/copy whole hog last pass why would you take out everything that made it convenient.
Or am I doing something wrong?
Dave
Password Manager
Hi kliebor
Welcome to the Community Forums.
You do not appear to be doing anything wrong in terms of your use of PM...I checked on the "I can not on my own home pc, save my password manager password,..." point many moons ago and was advised that this is by design (rightly or wrongly) in that if PM automatically opens up then it is viewed as a security risk as anyone starting the PC would have access to the passwords...there was a debate about this but that is the way it is...at least for the moment.
Same goes for the rest of what you are describing...that is how PM works...for now.
Whilst Password Manager is based on LastPass I do not think that the former is a faithful copy or at the latest level of the latter. There has been rumours that Webroot will be bringing out their very own in-house designed Password Manager at some point in the future but exactly if this is true and if so then when is unknown.
Apologies that I have no magic wand answers. Having said that I have been told by some other members that whilst it is not recommended by Webroot, it is possible to run both LastPass & PM on the same PC...but I have not tried it and do not know how that can be achieved...perhaps one of the other Community members reading this could advise?
Regards, Baldrick
Welcome to the Community Forums.
You do not appear to be doing anything wrong in terms of your use of PM...I checked on the "I can not on my own home pc, save my password manager password,..." point many moons ago and was advised that this is by design (rightly or wrongly) in that if PM automatically opens up then it is viewed as a security risk as anyone starting the PC would have access to the passwords...there was a debate about this but that is the way it is...at least for the moment.
Same goes for the rest of what you are describing...that is how PM works...for now.
Whilst Password Manager is based on LastPass I do not think that the former is a faithful copy or at the latest level of the latter. There has been rumours that Webroot will be bringing out their very own in-house designed Password Manager at some point in the future but exactly if this is true and if so then when is unknown.
Apologies that I have no magic wand answers. Having said that I have been told by some other members that whilst it is not recommended by Webroot, it is possible to run both LastPass & PM on the same PC...but I have not tried it and do not know how that can be achieved...perhaps one of the other Community members reading this could advise?
Regards, Baldrick
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete Beta Tester v9.0.24.49, imaged by Macrium Reflect v7.2
Thanks for the reply, I simply disabled webroots password manager, and enabled last pass which works exactly how I want. I was hoping to consolidate but, the state that webroots password manager is currently in, it is completely useless to me.
Hi kliebor
Glad that you have managed to get yourself sorted...but do keep an eye open for a new version of PM from Webroot...;)
Regards, Baldrick
Glad that you have managed to get yourself sorted...but do keep an eye open for a new version of PM from Webroot...;)
Regards, Baldrick
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