Systemwide password amnesia (v2004 build 19041.173)

Anonymous
2020-04-10T20:46:55+00:00

I have a Surface Pro 5 with a Windows Hello camera that wasn't working and I wasn't able to fix it. Looked like I'd need to do a reset to fix the drivers, so instead I decided to give 2004 a try, hoping the update would refresh the camera drives. Indeed this worked, but I've been having a lot of problems since the update:

Seems like all sorts of applications and OS features won't remember my username/passwords anymore.

  • Every time I log in I have to sign into both one drive personal and one drive business.
  • Outlook keeps asking me to log into my office365 every few hours.
  • Acrobat keeps asking for my Adobe login every time a load a pdf if I haven't done so in a few hours.
  • Settings periodically makes me fix my insider account configuration by re-authenticating with Hello
  • Lastpass extention in Firefox keeps asking me to enter my password despite being configured to only require a fingeprint (it first asks me for my fingerprint, but then also asks for the password)
  • probably some stuff I can't recall right now.

I wasn't having any of these issues before the update.

I tried following Lastpass's support advice to fix it by reinstalling the extension and resetting several settings but this didn't help.

It's possible these are all individual issues, but since it seems to be an issue with remembering credentials across a variety of applications, I'm suspecting it's a system wide issue and maybe not specific to these applications.

I checked that the credential manager service is running. It was set to manual. I changed it to automatic and rebooted but this didn't seem to help.

Anyone have an idea what could be going on here?

Thanks!

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Anonymous
2020-10-12T21:28:18+00:00

Update 2/8/21

This issue has been fixed by Windows in this Windows 10 update, February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com).

  • Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

I am updating the Outlook Known Issue article to reflect the same, Outlook and other apps won't remember password after Windows Updates - Outlook (microsoft.com).

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Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2021-02-10T03:14:41+00:00

Issue resolved in KB4601319 monthly update. If you continue to hit the issue, let us know.

February 2, 2021—KB4598291 (OS Builds 19041.789 and 19042.789) Preview (microsoft.com)

  • Addresses an issue in which using local Service for User (S4U) affects Data Protection API (DPAPI) credential keys and causes users to sign out unexpectedly.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T18:36:13+00:00

    Well it worked for me, but I agree it may not work for you. I tried more than the 8th method. Before I tried previous ones which didn't apparently solved the problem. But may be this started to reset some things, that made the 8th method successful.

    When applying such steps, it may resets some internal "parameters" that get corrupted, and for others the extent of the corruption may be beyond certain methods.

    I agree with you that the real problem is the one that make them become corrupt.  Did you read the latest post I did in reply to Joakim. My first post mentioned that my problem was solved when applying the 8th method.  But I forgot to explain how and which of  the other methods I applied before, without success.

    I agree that situation is extremely annoying and frsutrating. I've been annoyed with that more than a month. The problem didn't happen yet after applying the latest Windows version, which means that the bug may be not obvious to track.

    It seems to me that the problem became to appears after I activatedtwo factor authentification, for different services, through either Microsoft Authentificator or Google Authentificator Apps. May be this also happened when I played with Synchronisation between devices in Edge. 

    But devices were the same long before I played with the switches and are still the same.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-08T19:16:25+00:00

    Good for you Maurice 😊

    I have been dealing with this since May! And NONE of the "solutions" mentioned in this and other forums worked for me.

    As I said, none of these problems can be resolved by just adjusting any of the available settings; something we have no access to is severely corrupted requiring digging into the source code by very experienced programmers. Obviously their attention is currently elsewhere.

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  3. Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-10-11T09:51:47+00:00

    None of these helped. They seemed to help when attempted at the end of the day, but next morning users were required to enter OneDrive, Office Account password, and Outlook password.

    Thanks. Try the following:

    • Right-click Start>Windows Powershell(admin). Copy and paste below command
      • Get-ScheduledTask | foreach { If ((xml).GetElementsByTagName("LogonType").'#text' -eq "S4U") { $_.TaskName } }

    Note the app names you get as an output.

    Disable the apps you noted by running the command in the task scheduler. (For example, HP Customer participation utility task, Carbonite, etc). Explanation below:

    • Search for Task Scheduler in the start menu.
    • Locate the task in the Window(HP Customer participation/Carbonite).
    • Right-click the task and choose Disable.

    Restart your PC and your logins would be retained.

    Background: These steps disables the tasks which use S4U, which is the reason for this unexpected logout behavior. In case you need those tasks, make them non-S4U, i.e. enable the "Do not Store password" in the task scheduler. Disabling the tasks would not affect anything on your computer, though.

    The issue would be likely fixed in a future update. Appreciate your patience.

    Edit:16/10/2020. Answer explained in detail.

    Edit:08/11/2020: Edited to Improve clarity.

    Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1069383#c90

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