Enabling or disabling autocomplete for credentials

Autocomplete helps users log in more easily by predicting their user name and password on the login page. For example, if a user starts typing awa in the Username box, the browser might offer the option of selecting awatson, because a user with that user name had already logged in from that machine. When you select the user name from the list of suggestions, the browser might automatically fill in the user's password as well. For security reasons, you should usually disable autocomplete on your system.

Procedure

  1. On the WorldServer host machine, go to the WS_CONFIG directory and open the general.properties file with a text editor.
  2. Search for the password_autocomplete property. If it is not in the file, add it yourself.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • To enable autocomplete, set the value of the password_autocomplete property to on.
    • To disable autocomplete, set the value of the password_autocomplete property to off.
  4. Restart WorldServer.