Title: password reset gotcha
Last modified: January 9, 2021

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# password reset gotcha

 *  [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
 * (@airdrummer)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-gotcha/)
 * i’ve been dealing with a few user pebkacs recently, & while testing the p/w reset
   process, i got bit by this gotcha:
 * on reset, the browser asks if u want to save the new passwd, so sure…then on 
   logging in, the browser offers my saved uid/passwds, so i click on the uid i 
   just reset, & i’m rejected as invalid:-\
 * i then realized that the uid/email was blank on the previous reset screen, so
   the pw was stored with a blank uid instead of the uid i’m resetting…
 * latherrinserepeat: perhaps this is the source of so many login/reset issues…can
   the uid be added to the pw reset form to fix this?

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 *  Thread Starter [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
 * (@airdrummer)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-gotcha/#post-13885621)
 * nope, i c&p’d the uid field from the login page & made it hidden:
    `<input name
   ="log" id="log" value="me@my.org" class="username" type="hidden">` but i still
   get “no username” in the save passwd dialog…screenshot @ [https://letartliveon.com/images/savePwDialog.png](https://letartliveon.com/images/savePwDialog.png)
 *  Plugin Author [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * (@cbutlerjr)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-gotcha/#post-13894776)
 * That’s actually a browser issue, not a plugin issue. And more specifically, it’s
   a process where it’s incumbent upon the user that if they’re going to save their
   credentials in their browser, if doing that when resetting a password, you’d 
   have to manually add your username. It’s not within the plugin’s purview to do
   that.
 * Also, even if the plugin could do it, I wouldn’t go that direction. From a security
   standpoint, it wouldn’t be advisable to add the username to the password reset
   form.

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 * Last reply from: [Chad Butler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbutlerjr/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-reset-gotcha/#post-13894776)
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