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LastPass
blog.lastpass.com › posts › forgot-your-password-your-guide-to-lastpass-account-recovery
Forgot Your Password? Your Guide to LastPass Account Recovery - The LastPass Blog
March 24, 2022 - The LastPass browser extension automatically creates and stores the one-time recovery password when you log in. Click the "Forgot password" link on the log-in window to open https://lastpass.com/recover.php and start the account recovery steps.
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LastPass
lastpass.com › recover.php
LastPass - Recover Account
Ask for your master password hint now. If you have one, we'll send it to your LastPass account email. If you've set up mobile account recovery, it's the fastest and easiest way back into your account.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/lastpass › i cant login to my lastpass account using the account recovery process.
I cant login to my LastPass account Using the account recovery process. : r/Lastpass
January 9, 2022 - You need to use a browser where the LastPass extension is installed and you have successfully logged-in to LastPass previously. When you login to LastPass a recovery one-time password is saved locally on the device. If you have uninstalled the extension and/or cleared app data it will be deleted.
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GitHub
github.com › mkorz › LastPassRecovery
GitHub - mkorz/LastPassRecovery: Small tool to recover your master Last Pass password ONLY IF YOU HAVE SAVED IT IN FIREFOX.
Small tool to recover your master Last Pass password ONLY IF YOU HAVE SAVED IT IN FIREFOX. - mkorz/LastPassRecovery
Author   mkorz
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IT@Cornell
it.cornell.edu › password-mgmt › lastpass-master-password-forgotten-or-doesnt-work
LastPass Master Password Forgotten or Doesn't Work | IT@Cornell
Here are steps you can take to try to recover it. We recommend that you start with step one and proceed through each step in order. Try logging into the LastPass website - if you can sign in here, please uninstall the extension and re-install and test your login again.
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University of Oklahoma
itsupport.ou.edu › TDClient › 30 › Unified › KB › ArticleDet
LastPass Premium as Perk Account - Recover Your Lost Master Password for LastPass Premium
as long as at least one of your browsers has captured a Recovery One Time Password (which is created by logging in to the extension at least once). Follow these instructions to reset your Master Password using SMS account recovery. Follow these instructions to reset your Master Password using a Recovery One Time Password on any web browser where you have logged in to the LastPass web browser extension at least once.
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Wondershare
pdf.wondershare.com › reseller › lastpass-forgot-master-password.html
Forgot LastPass Master Password? Recover it Right Now
May 22, 2025 - Since there could be confusion around which device you used for your last login and which browser the extension was installed in. For that reason, you only receive an email with the Recovery One Time Password when the device-browser combination ...
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LastPass
blog.lastpass.com › posts › never-lose-access-lastpass-account-recovery-mobile
Never Lose Access to LastPass with Account Recovery on Mobile - The LastPass Blog
May 2, 2019 - But if you need a desktop recovery option, the first step is to send yourself a password hint. When you created your master password, you are given the option of creating a password hint. If you forgot your master password but created a password hint, you can navigate to https://lastpass.com/forgot.php, then enter your email address and click Send Hint to email you a clue about your master password.
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LastPass
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I have actually tried to use account recovery with LastPass just to test this on Mar 5 2014. Lastpass sends you a link good for 48 hours via the email account associated with Lastpass. You need to access this link from a browser with a Lastpass plugin installed. If this plugin was used to access the lastpass account with the email address used for the account recovery, and if One Time Password was enabled, you will be taken to your vault and offered the chance to change your master password. HOWEVER, if you don't change your master password, you will still be left in your lastpass vault, with your various logins visible. You cannot export them without knowing the master password, but you can look at (edit) the various individual logins. Thus someone could take for example your bank login information without ever changing your master password. You might never know this has happened. This presumes that someone has access to your email account, for example, if you left it open on your computer when you stepped away.

I think turning off One Time Password is a very good idea. And the One Time Password in advanced options in the plugin, is PER MACHINE. So any other browsers you use, or portable versions, or if you ever logged into lastpass from someone's computer using their browser and plugin.

I think LastPass should probably disable One Time Password by default, even though some users would probably forget their master password and lose access to their password vault. Lastpass should at least make the One Time Password account wide, not per machine. So you don't have to remember every machine you ever logged from.

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There are several way to implement such functionality, but basically yes all represent significant security risks, especially since they posses your password database too.

LastPass might offer some emergency contact information for disabling this feature if your machine got stolen. You could avoid using LastPass for any passwords that provide financial or deeper identifying information as well.

There are several open source password database programs like KeePass and KeePassX that store your entire password database locally.

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LastPass
lastpass.com › forgot.php
Forgot Password? | LastPass
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