Adding user to my computer?

Hi thai,



This doesn't sound correct, since the bank web site cannot tell which user is on the PC. It can tell what your ISP assigned net address is (which computer is accessing the site).

When you say:


Is this to log into the web site or after you have logged in to the bank website and are trying to access his account inside the website? The reason I ask is that Chrome remembers login in and passwords. If it is the login page, it may be Chrome is not letting you over ride the auto fill. Also if you change the account, then is there a different password for that account? If you didn't change the auto filled password and the login failed then Chrome would enter the default login (your account) to try again.

If this occurs after you have already logged in to the bank web site, then you need to contact the bank. Most likely the bank has to link the two accounts so either account can access the other.

Hi Thai:

Due to the work that I do, I have sometimes have to log on to different accounts at the same bank. As DrCard says, it sounds as if your browser is doing your log-in for you. If your browser is set up to remember log-in information, this could well be the cause of the behaviour that you are describing.

As a matter of policy I never let any browser (I use several!) remember passwords and other log-in information for me. This can be done in the Options section of the browser(s) that you use.

Instead I use a password manager to deal with all log-ins to any and all web-sites, whether they are confidential (like banks or government services, etc.) or forums and other sites such as this one. Every single logon is different, and my password manager helps me by generating strong passwords for me, then filling them in -- at my specific request -- for any site that I wish to log in to. I have one, very good password which I know, and which I do not write down anywhere. That one is needed to manage my password manager, and it is the only one that I actually have to remember. The password manager then does the rest.

So if you have different accounts at the same bank site, when you arrive to its log-in screen, the password manager pops up, and you can see the different accounts that you have already taught it about. They could be something like "My Checking" and "His Savings", or whatever you have told the Password Manager to use. You then select the one you wist to log in-to.

The next step depends on how you have set up this particular site. If you have decided that you do not need to "Password-protect" this site, the Password Manager will simply log you in, using your user-name and the unique, strong password for that site.

Or for more important sites, when you first used the Password Manager at this site, you have instructed it to require that you enter the the password that manages the Password Manager before it will fill in the log-in information which gets you into the site. In this case, My Checking or His Savings.

I have brought all this up is because you mentioned more than just bank accounts in your original post. I have given someone the password to my password manager, so that s/he will be able to get into and deal with my various on-line accounts when the need arises. This is something that should also be given to the executor of one's estate, because when we die, unless we have already closed down all this on-line stuff, that person will need to be able to do so.

If people would like to comment on the different password managers that they use, or something related to this topic, we could set up a thread to do so.