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Wow, thanks, that does help!  I'm glad I asked after all.

All the best,
-- dkm


On 2016-05-10 3:45 PM, Tomaka, Andrew wrote:
> LastPass makes an attempt to store fields beyond the username and password.  If you open the specific credential set in LastPass, click on "Advanced Settings" and then click "Edit Form Fields", you can see the set of form fields that LastPass has saved.  All of my MSU login forms have a field "AuthenticationMethod" that has a drop down that is set to "MSUNet"  If I had to guess, yours somehow was set to blank for the credential set you are using.
>
> Unfortunately, I am not sure how this could have happen. You should be able to correct it by visiting the screen I mentioned above and clicking the minus sign next to that field.
>
> Other than that, I regularly use LastPass on Linux, Mac, and Windows in both Chrome and Firefox.  I have 18 credential sets that show for the MSU login form and have not had any issues so far.
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: David McFarlane [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 12:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] LastPass vs. MSU login
>
> Again, sorry that I bothered you all, but I think this should end it.  I
> just set aside that login record in LastPass and then made a new record,
> now it works as it should.
>
> So, the original record pointed to
> https://login.msu.edu/?App=ATS_Shibboleth_IdP_Idm&service=https%3A%2F%2Fidp.idm.msu.edu%2Fidp%2FAuthn%2FRemoteUser
>
> Another record that still worked pointed to
> https://login.msu.edu/?App=ATS_Shibboleth_IdP_Idm
>
> But when I tried that with the first record, it did not work there.
>
> The new record points to
> https://login.msu.edu/Login
>
> and that works.  Go figure.
>
> Finally, something that I got off-list from Gary Schrock that may still
> be relevant:  "I'm guessing lastpass has done something in the
> background changing how they fill in fields, and it's causing more
> problems than it used to."
>
> Thanks to all,
> -- dkm
>
>
> On 2016-05-10 11:36 AM, David McFarlane wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Yeah, my situation is unusual.  I also manage four different MSU login
>> accounts, so I have captured multiple LastPass records and I have to
>> tell LastPass which one to use for every MSU login.
>>
>> (Tip:  To log in to two accounts at once, just open a Private browser
>> window.  This only works for two logins however.)
>>
>> Stop the presses!  In the course of writing this reply, I learned that
>> the problem happens for only *one* of my LastPass login records!  That's
>> really weird because as far as I know I did not change anything, but it
>> does look like the problem is entirely on my end and now I need to
>> troubleshoot that.  Sorry for troubling you all.
>>
>> -- dkm
>>
>>
>> On 2016-05-10 11:21 AM, Doerr, Chris wrote:
>>> Hi David
>>>
>>> It seemed to work for me, but I don't have a LastPass record per MSU
>>> site (example: no separate  records for D2L vs. MSU Mail etc.).  I
>>> captured the login at the MSU Auth screen and just use it for the
>>> first site that is asking for the SSO during a particular browser
>>> session.
>>>
>>> So, mine has this URL captured:
>>> https://login.msu.edu/?App=ATS_Shibboleth_IdP_Idm
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Doerr
>>> Information Technologist I
>>> Support Services
>>> Infrastructure Planning and Facilities
>>> Michigan State University
>>> Phone: 517.432.0225 | Fax: 517.353.5001
>>> [log in to unmask] | ipf.msu.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David McFarlane [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:53 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [MSUNAG] LastPass vs. MSU login
>>>
>>> Is anyone else having trouble using LastPass to log in to MSU services?
>>>     Or, is anyone else *not* having trouble using LastPass to log in to
>>> MSU services?
>>>
>>> This worked fine for me up until yesterday.  Since then, I use
>>> LastPass to enter my NetID & Password, click on Login, and then get
>>> immediately returned to the login page with no other message.
>>>
>>> Usually I do this to log in to d2l.msu.edu, which gave me no clues.
>>> But when I tried login.msu.edu, I did notice something:  The login
>>> dialog starts with "Authenticator" set to "MSU Net".  After LastPass
>>> populates the NetID and Password, the Authenticator field goes blank.
>>> I bet that did not happen last week.
>>>
>>> Note that this is *not* a problem of LastPass failing to auto-fill, it
>>> does that just fine.  It happens for me with both FireFox and Chrome.
>>> And it only happens for MSU logins, everywhere else LastPass works
>>> just the same as it always did.  So it seems to me that something
>>> changed with the MSU login over the weekend.
>>>
>>> -- dkm
>