Problem enabled GRE Interface (PPOE passwords not matching)
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I am adding running PFSense in a virtualbox VM. Adding a GRE, which is fine, and then assigning an interface. All looking good,
When I try to enable interface, I get an error of PPOE passwords not matching (or sometimes PPP passwords). I have not configured or tried to use PPP.
I have found that I can sometimes get around the error by configuring PPPOE on another interface (which I do not need), but this has not worked systematically. I can't configure PPPOE on the GRE interface. Lots of fiddling has not got around this.
Any help REALLY appreciated
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Stop your browser from automatically filling in your password into the interface form.
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Jim - thanks for posting. In the end I figured it out - took me much longer than it should have done.
Auto-filling hidden fields is pretty sucky, and this really should be addressed.
Anyhow, appreciate your help
Steve
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Unfortunately, browsers and password plugins don't let page authors decide what forms can't be autofilled anymore. Not much we can do.
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That seems a real nuisance. Turning off auto-fill in Chrome is surprisingly hard. It is just a feature that is generally super-useful. Clearly Google don't expect it to be turned off.
I just manually cleared auto-fill cache.
This will surely hit other people. Auto-fill of the PFsense login is helpful.
Could you change the types in the fields, so that they are not filled as standard attrributes. The username also gets filled in some odd places.
I'm not an expert on this, but I'd be surprised if there is not a way around this.
This issue is surely going to hit quite a few users.
Steve
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Doesn't matter how you change the fields, if the browser determines that it looks like a user/password, it auto-fills.
At some point browsers and password managers decided they knew better than web developers about what forms should do.
If there is a viable technique that actually works in current browsers, I'd love to see it. We've gone over this lots of times in the past couple years.
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That sounds nasty. Sounds like you've been looking for solutions.
From a user perspective, might make sense to somewhere have a clear warning to not cache the pfsense login/password
Steve
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2530/how-do-you-disable-browser-autocomplete-on-web-form-field-input-tag/2531#2531
I am not expert in web development but I have a little bit google-fu power.
Making fields read only when it is hidden or until it is selected by user looks like good solution. -
@w0w said in Problem enabled GRE Interface (PPOE passwords not matching):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2530/how-do-you-disable-browser-autocomplete-on-web-form-field-input-tag/2531#2531
I am not expert in web development but I have a little bit google-fu power.
Making fields read only when it is hidden or until it is selected by user looks like good solution.Except all of those answers are years old and do not work.
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@jimp
Are you sure that some browser ignores now read-only marked fields and do autofill anyway?
This sample was found on the same old thread — https://jsfiddle.net/danielsuess/n0scguv6/
I've tried this with FF, both are OK, not filling those fields, only manually you can select saved password when field is active. -
I didn't see that one, but I'm not terribly crazy about adding even more JavaScript to work around that. Might be worth considering, at least.
