After 4.1.2 on the Splunk UI login, I no longer see the browser prompt 'Do you want Firefox to remember the password for ...'

[Ellen]

After 4.1.2 on the Splunk UI login, I noticed under Firefox 3.6.x the browser prompt for 'Do you want Firefox to remember the password for ...' no longer displays.

Nothing has changed with my default Firefox settings from my earlier Splunk version. For my new 4.1.x environments that I also administer, it is a hassle to have to manually enter in my username and password each time I need to access those systems.

What changed from prior releases and can I get this fixed?

[Ellen · Accepted solution]

There is a Splunk web.conf attribute called "enable_autocomplete_login" which is affecting the behavior you are seeing in Firefox where the: "Do you want Firefox to remember the password for ...." never displays. It is related to the use of autocompletion.

Starting with 4.0.7, this default setting was changed from True (enable) to False (disable) eg. enable_autocomplete_login = False

To allow the browser to remember the password, modify the default setting and add into $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/web.conf in the [settings] stanza enable_autocomplete_login = True

Note: do not change the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/web.conf but create /etc/system/local/web.conf if it does not exist. Include the entry below and restart Splunk for this to take affect.

[settings]
# Enable/Disable Form Username and Password storage prompts and control form
# data from being cached in session history. 
enable_autocomplete_login = True