A password-protected website means that only you and users you grant permission to can access it. There are services that will help you add password protection to your wesite either for free or for a fee. All you have to do is sign up and add some code to your homepage. Follow these steps to find out how.


Step1
Join a website that offers this service. Some are less secure and may not offer the exact protection you need. Others are more secure and may require a fee.
Step2
That website you joined will give you an HTML code to enter into your website. This may vary based on the program.
Step3
Look for a line in the script that reads "form.id.value=='userID.'" Change "userID" to whatever username you want.
Step4
Now look for a line in the script that reads "form.pass.value=='password.'" Change "password" to the one you want.
Step5
Now look for a line that reads "location='page2.html.'" This is the URL of the page that the person will be directed to once they enter the correct password. You may have to edit the path accordingly. If you're not sure, just put the complete URL of the page here.
Step6
The next step is optional. Look for a line that reads "alert('Invalid Password')." You can change "Invalid Password" to whatever message you want. For example, you can make it say, "The password you entered is incorrect. Please try again."
Step7
You can also do the same to the user Invalid ID section. Look for the line "alert('Invalid UserID')." Change "Invalid UserID" to whatever message you want to display when the username is incorrect.
Step8
That's it. You're finished!


Tips & Warnings

* Try free services.
* Try multiple services to see which one is best for you.
* You can direct different people to different webpages. They won't realize other pages exist unless you grant them access.
* Make sure the code source cannot be viewed. If it can, someone will see the password
* Make sure the software you use is compatible with your OS.

What is Firefox?
Some websites, in particular financial institutions, prevent the Firefox password manager from saving login information. This is to protect the users from unauthorized use of the service- and support for the feature was included in Firefox as a condition of the institution's support for the browser. However, many users find this behaviour annoying, and some even argue that it forces users to use passwords shared with other sites so that they will have less passwords to remember. In any case, being a client-side application, a web browser should give ultimate control of the application to the end user. As Mozilla developers refuse to add an override option to Firefox, I had been forced to find an alternative method. Note that I don't question the developer's intentions, especially after reading about 20 bug reports on the subject. I hope that the solution I present will satisfy the end user's need of an active password management feature, and yet still satisfy the Mozilla development communities commitment to the financial institutions. I am not associated with Mozilla in any way, other than the fact that I use Firefox and have filed a few bugs. This method will not work on websites who rotate the form field names. Don't let your financial institution know that!

Things you will need:

1. Write access to a webserver, not just the ability to open webpages stored on the local harddrive or localhost.
2. A text editor
3. An ftp client or other method of publishing a webpage to the server.
4. Very basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. Namely, how to identify elements of each.
5. Firefox, of course!

What you must do:

1. Open Firefox and browse to the webpage that contains the form you wish to add to the password manager. Take note of the domain name, you will need it later. That's everything between "http://" and the next slash. For instance, BigBank.com or LittleBank.co.il
2. Click View -> Page Source. Save this file to your computer.
3. Search the page source for the form containing the login form. Remove everything before the form, and everything after it. Now add at the beginning of the file and at the end.
4. Remove the text autocomplete="off"

from wherever it appears in the form. That's usually in the Form element itself and the Input elements for the username and password.
5. Remove all Javascript from the form. That includes onsubmit attributes, onchange attributes, and the like. Check that the submit button doesn't have a disabled attribute.
6. Remove all id and value attributes from form elements, with the exception of option elements inside select elements.
7. Save the page and publish it to your webserver (not local harddrive or localhost). Open the page from the webserver in Firefox.
8. Fill out the form with the information that you'd like saved. Submit the form. The password manager should ask if you want to store the information. Click "Yes".
9. Close Firefox.
10. Back up and open the signons.txt file. It's located at ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ in Linux and at ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/ on Macintosh. Windows users will have to google the file location, as I wouldn't dare do this on a Windows box and I'll not tell you how.
11. Find the name of the webserver that you used the dummy form on. Change it to the name of the real website's webserver. Save the file.
12. Open Firefox and go to the real webpage. The form should be filled in for you. Better yet, it should prompt you for the Master Password- you are using one, right?
13. Enjoy!

I'd love to hear about your success/ failures. Use my contact form, and send me any improvements to the method as you see them. I'll publish them here.

Update: Brian Carpenter recently let me know of a much easier way to actually enable the Firefox password manager for all websites, even those that request that the feature be disabled. In Firefox's nsLoginManager.js file, commonet out the following lines:

if (element && element.hasAttribute("autocomplete") &&
element.getAttribute("autocomplete").toLowerCase() == "off")
return true;

The nsLoginManager.js file can be found in Firefox's "components" folder, which varies in location from system to system. On Linux, the command "locate nsLoginManager.js" will tell you right where it is. Thanks, Brian!

Disclaimer: Performing the steps outlined here will give anybody who users your computer (with or without your consent) access to your accounts. This includes people with physical access to your machine, as well as those who can access it remotely. Of course, this includes trojans and all forms of spyware. If you do use this method, then be sure that you use Firefox's Master Keyword feature, and make sure that your user account is secure. I don't recommend doing this on computers running Windows operating systems, as those systems are extremely vulnerable to spyware and other malicious software.

What is Firefox?
Some websites, in particular financial institutions, prevent the Firefox password manager from saving login information. This is to protect the users from unauthorized use of the service- and support for the feature was included in Firefox as a condition of the institution's support for the browser. However, many users find this behaviour annoying, and some even argue that it forces users to use passwords shared with other sites so that they will have less passwords to remember. In any case, being a client-side application, a web browser should give ultimate control of the application to the end user. As Mozilla developers refuse to add an override option to Firefox, I had been forced to find an alternative method. Note that I don't question the developer's intentions, especially after reading about 20 bug reports on the subject. I hope that the solution I present will satisfy the end user's need of an active password management feature, and yet still satisfy the Mozilla development communities commitment to the financial institutions. I am not associated with Mozilla in any way, other than the fact that I use Firefox and have filed a few bugs. This method will not work on websites who rotate the form field names. Don't let your financial institution know that!

Things you will need:

1. Write access to a webserver, not just the ability to open webpages stored on the local harddrive or localhost.
2. A text editor
3. An ftp client or other method of publishing a webpage to the server.
4. Very basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. Namely, how to identify elements of each.
5. Firefox, of course!

What you must do:

1. Open Firefox and browse to the webpage that contains the form you wish to add to the password manager. Take note of the domain name, you will need it later. That's everything between "http://" and the next slash. For instance, BigBank.com or LittleBank.co.il
2. Click View -> Page Source. Save this file to your computer.
3. Search the page source for the form containing the login form. Remove everything before the form, and everything after it. Now add at the beginning of the file and at the end.
4. Remove the text autocomplete="off"

from wherever it appears in the form. That's usually in the Form element itself and the Input elements for the username and password.
5. Remove all Javascript from the form. That includes onsubmit attributes, onchange attributes, and the like. Check that the submit button doesn't have a disabled attribute.
6. Remove all id and value attributes from form elements, with the exception of option elements inside select elements.
7. Save the page and publish it to your webserver (not local harddrive or localhost). Open the page from the webserver in Firefox.
8. Fill out the form with the information that you'd like saved. Submit the form. The password manager should ask if you want to store the information. Click "Yes".
9. Close Firefox.
10. Back up and open the signons.txt file. It's located at ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ in Linux and at ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/ on Macintosh. Windows users will have to google the file location, as I wouldn't dare do this on a Windows box and I'll not tell you how.
11. Find the name of the webserver that you used the dummy form on. Change it to the name of the real website's webserver. Save the file.
12. Open Firefox and go to the real webpage. The form should be filled in for you. Better yet, it should prompt you for the Master Password- you are using one, right?
13. Enjoy!

I'd love to hear about your success/ failures. Use my contact form, and send me any improvements to the method as you see them. I'll publish them here.

Update: Brian Carpenter recently let me know of a much easier way to actually enable the Firefox password manager for all websites, even those that request that the feature be disabled. In Firefox's nsLoginManager.js file, commonet out the following lines:

if (element && element.hasAttribute("autocomplete") &&
element.getAttribute("autocomplete").toLowerCase() == "off")
return true;

The nsLoginManager.js file can be found in Firefox's "components" folder, which varies in location from system to system. On Linux, the command "locate nsLoginManager.js" will tell you right where it is. Thanks, Brian!

Disclaimer: Performing the steps outlined here will give anybody who users your computer (with or without your consent) access to your accounts. This includes people with physical access to your machine, as well as those who can access it remotely. Of course, this includes trojans and all forms of spyware. If you do use this method, then be sure that you use Firefox's Master Keyword feature, and make sure that your user account is secure. I don't recommend doing this on computers running Windows operating systems, as those systems are extremely vulnerable to spyware and other malicious software.

What is Firefox?
Some websites, in particular financial institutions, prevent the Firefox password manager from saving login information. This is to protect the users from unauthorized use of the service- and support for the feature was included in Firefox as a condition of the institution's support for the browser. However, many users find this behaviour annoying, and some even argue that it forces users to use passwords shared with other sites so that they will have less passwords to remember. In any case, being a client-side application, a web browser should give ultimate control of the application to the end user. As Mozilla developers refuse to add an override option to Firefox, I had been forced to find an alternative method. Note that I don't question the developer's intentions, especially after reading about 20 bug reports on the subject. I hope that the solution I present will satisfy the end user's need of an active password management feature, and yet still satisfy the Mozilla development communities commitment to the financial institutions. I am not associated with Mozilla in any way, other than the fact that I use Firefox and have filed a few bugs. This method will not work on websites who rotate the form field names. Don't let your financial institution know that!

Things you will need:

1. Write access to a webserver, not just the ability to open webpages stored on the local harddrive or localhost.
2. A text editor
3. An ftp client or other method of publishing a webpage to the server.
4. Very basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. Namely, how to identify elements of each.
5. Firefox, of course!

What you must do:

1. Open Firefox and browse to the webpage that contains the form you wish to add to the password manager. Take note of the domain name, you will need it later. That's everything between "http://" and the next slash. For instance, BigBank.com or LittleBank.co.il
2. Click View -> Page Source. Save this file to your computer.
3. Search the page source for the form containing the login form. Remove everything before the form, and everything after it. Now add at the beginning of the file and at the end.
4. Remove the text autocomplete="off"

from wherever it appears in the form. That's usually in the Form element itself and the Input elements for the username and password.
5. Remove all Javascript from the form. That includes onsubmit attributes, onchange attributes, and the like. Check that the submit button doesn't have a disabled

attribute.
6. Remove all

id

and

value

attributes from form elements, with the exception of

option

elements inside

select

elements.
7. Save the page and publish it to your webserver (not local harddrive or localhost). Open the page from the webserver in Firefox.
8. Fill out the form with the information that you'd like saved. Submit the form. The password manager should ask if you want to store the information. Click "Yes".
9. Close Firefox.
10. Back up and open the signons.txt file. It's located at ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ in Linux and at ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/ on Macintosh. Windows users will have to google the file location, as I wouldn't dare do this on a Windows box and I'll not tell you how.
11. Find the name of the webserver that you used the dummy form on. Change it to the name of the real website's webserver. Save the file.
12. Open Firefox and go to the real webpage. The form should be filled in for you. Better yet, it should prompt you for the Master Password- you are using one, right?
13. Enjoy!

I'd love to hear about your success/ failures. Use my contact form, and send me any improvements to the method as you see them. I'll publish them here.

Update: Brian Carpenter recently let me know of a much easier way to actually enable the Firefox password manager for all websites, even those that request that the feature be disabled. In Firefox's nsLoginManager.js file, commonet out the following lines:

if (element && element.hasAttribute("autocomplete") &&
element.getAttribute("autocomplete").toLowerCase() == "off")
return true;

The nsLoginManager.js file can be found in Firefox's "components" folder, which varies in location from system to system. On Linux, the command "locate nsLoginManager.js" will tell you right where it is. Thanks, Brian!

Disclaimer: Performing the steps outlined here will give anybody who users your computer (with or without your consent) access to your accounts. This includes people with physical access to your machine, as well as those who can access it remotely. Of course, this includes trojans and all forms of spyware. If you do use this method, then be sure that you use Firefox's Master Keyword feature, and make sure that your user account is secure. I don't recommend doing this on computers running Windows operating systems, as those systems are extremely vulnerable to spyware and other malicious software.