#Recover lastpass master password verification
#Recover lastpass master password password

#Recover lastpass master password password

Resetting your password with SMS recovery Save your changes with the “Update” button.Select the option to add a phone number.Sign in to LastPass via the browser extension or.If you’re ready to add a phone number for SMS recovery, follow these steps: Adding or updating your mobile number for SMS recovery If you do not want to enable SMS account recovery, we strongly recommend turning on two-factor authentication for your email account, and committing your email password to memory. The phone number is only used by LastPass to text you when you need to activate account recovery.

We recommend SMS recovery for those who are concerned about this potential risk. Should someone have access to a computer where you’ve used LastPass, and they also manage to compromise your email account, they could potentially try to use the LastPass email recovery feature to gain access to your vault. You’re concerned about unauthorized access to your vault.If your email password is also stored in LastPass, and you forget your master password, this will ensure that you aren’t also locked out of your email account and unable to complete the account recovery process. You store the password for your email address in LastPass.There are a few reasons why we recommend turning on SMS recovery: Now, you can choose the recovery option that best suits your needs and security preferences.

#Recover lastpass master password verification

The same OTP technology is used to verify you and allow the master password to be reset, but you’re replacing the email step with entering a verification code instead. With SMS recovery, you will simply enter the code texted to you to activate the locally-stored One Time Password in your browser. A different OTP is stored for every browser on any computer where you use the LastPass extension, though this can be disabled in your extension preferences. When starting the recovery process, the OTP is utilized to verify that you should be given access to your account, before allowing you to reset your master password. OTPs are bits of data that are automatically generated and stored by the LastPass browser extension, and is stored locally until you go through the recovery process. Clicking the recovery link activates a locally-stored One Time Password (OTP).

Until now, we have facilitated master password recovery by sending a unique recovery link to your account email address (or security email address, if you enabled one in your account settings). Once the code is used to activate the local recovery data that LastPass stores via your browser, you can securely reset your master password. This allows you to activate the secure, local-only account recovery process by using a code that is texted to you. Today we’re introducing a new way to protected your master password reset process: SMS recovery. But what if your master password is so good that you forget it? And to protect your account, you know the master password needs to be long, and strong, and unique. One of the perks of LastPass is that you remember just one password, your master password.