Site question ... didn't know where else to post it

[Pixilated]

A while ago I got logged out of everything when I rebooted my 'puter. I tried signing back in here with the last known password. Didn't work. I tried using the "Forgot username/password" link. Didn't work.
Today for some reason I decided to try logging in again just using my username and trusting to the asterisks that were already in the password box.
It worked. (D'oh )

So here's my question: a lot of sites give you the ability to click on a little "eye" so you can SEE your password. Is it possible to do this here? Because it would be really nice to know what my current password is ... just in case this happens again.

[Seanette]

Your browser might have that saved. I know I have both Chrome and Brave set to do so. Details of accessing that would vary by browser, but try under anything in the menu that mentions passwords, autofill, security, or privacy.

[MadMike]

There's no way to do that as far as I know. As an admin, I can't even see passwords. If I edit a profile, there's a box for their password, but it doesn't show me anything. The only thing I can do is enter a new password into it if someone forgets their password and needs it changed, but I can't view what it is currently.

[RealUnimportant]

I think Seanette's idea's best. If the browser's remembered something to fill in, then it'll have a way to show you what that is; most modern browsers even have a search box within their settings, so you should be able to type "password" and get the relevant sections isolated. Also, if you're using a mac (can't recall if that's the case) the passwords may additionally be stored in your Keychain, which you can review using Keychain Access in Utilities

I believe site-wise you don't need to send the password from the site to the browser, it's just a change in the field data type to stop it being obscured, which in this case would allow the data auto-filled by the browser to be seen by the user visiting the page; there may be a way to do it via a script temporarily, but (probably unsurprisingly) I can't find a quick plug & play solution

[Nunavut Pants]

Firefox has an internal page called "about:logins" which lets you access the logins that it has saved for you. I would bet other browsers have something similar.