How to clear basic authentication details in chrome

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I m working on a site that uses basic authentication  Using Chrome I ve logged in using the basic auth  I now want to remove the basic authentication details from the browser and try a different login   How do you clear the current basic authentication details when using Chrome

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It seems chrome will always show you the login prompt if you include a username in the url e g   http   me example com  This is not a real full solution  see Mike s comment below

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The authentication is cleared when you exit Chrome   Note however  that by default Chrome is running apps in the background  so it may not really exit even if you close all Chrome windows  You can either change this behavior under advanced setting  or e g  under Windows  you can completely exit Chrome by using the Chrome icon in the systray  There should be an icon if Chrome is still running  but maybe you ll find it only in the popup with the hidden icons  The context menu of the Chrome icon has an entry to completely exit Chrome  and you can also change the setting for running apps in the background using that menu    Open the Chrome menu Select Settings Scroll to the bottom Click Show advanced settings    Scroll to the bottom Under System uncheck the box labeled   Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed

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Things changed a lot since the answer was posted   Now you will see a small key symbol on the right hand side of the URL bar  Click the symbol and it will take you directly to the saved password dialog where you can remove the password     Successfully tested in Chrome 49

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You can also do it via the settings page  chrome   chrome settings   Under The Hood Advanced Settings Passwords and Forms   Then click the link Manage saved passwords

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Shortest way  Click lock icon in address bar  Then click Site settings  then click Reset permissions

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There is no way to do this in Chrome as yet  Chrome 58   I have found the best solution is to open the url in an Incognito window  which will force you to re-enter the basic authentication credentials   When you want to change the credentials  close the Incognito window and launch another Incognito window

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all you need to do is to type chrome   restart in the address bar and chrome  with all its apps that are running in background  will restart and the Auth password cache will be cleaned

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You should be able to clear your credentials from your browser via  Clear Browsing Data     in chrome   settings advanced

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May be old thread but thought of adding answer to help others    I had the same issue with Advanced ReST Client App  I m not able to clear basic authentication from Chrome neither from app  It simply stopped asking for credentials    However  I managed to make it work by relaunching Chrome using About Google Chrome -  Relaunch    Once Chrome is relaunched  when I accessed ReST service  it will ask for user name and password using basic authentication popup   Hope this helps

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You can open an incognito window Ctrl Shift n each time you are doing a test  The incognito window will not remember the username and password the last time you entered   To use this trick  make sure to close all incognito windows  All incognito windows share the same cache  In other words  you cannot open multiple independent incognito windows  If you login in one of them and open another one  those two are related and you will see that the new window remembers the authentication information from the first window

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Just do   https   newUsername newPassword example com      to override your old credentials

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Right click on your Bookmark Bar - gt  Add Page    Set the name as Logout Basic Auth Set the URL as   javascript   function         var xmlhttp   new XMLHttpRequest        xmlhttp onreadystatechange   function             if  xmlhttp readyState    4                location reload                        xmlhttp open  quot GET quot   location origin  true       xmlhttp setRequestHeader  quot Authorization quot    quot Basic aW52YWxpZDoK quot        xmlhttp send        return false         On any webpage you need to logout of Basic Auth  click the bookmark

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In Chrome  on the right-hand side of the URL bar when you are at a password protected URL  you should see a small key symbol  Click the symbol and it will take you directly to the Password Management area where you can remove the entry  That will ensure you receive future prompts or have an opportunity to enter a new password and save it   If you do not see the key symbol  that same Password Management area can be accessed by going to Chrome -  Settings -  Passwords and forms -  Manage Passwords  Or more simply  this URL     chrome   settings passwords

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For Windows 10  What worked for me was clearing the credentials in the Windows Credentials in the Credential Manager

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As mentioned by  SalCelli  chrome   restart works  However  this relaunches all the tabs  Another method is to launch in incognito mode as suggested by CEGRD However  if you could not like to restart  amp  use incognito  on Chrome 86  Mac   I found that the answer provided by  opsb  amp  Mike only works with the below additional steps   Enter the wrong username in the url without the resources eg  if the url is http   mywebsite com resources   it will not work if I enter http   wrong mywebsite com resources   but will work if I enter only http   wrong mywebsite com   it clears the Basic Auth credentials prompt for the credentials again   However  entering the valid credentials will not work  as in the background  chrome still send the wrong user as part of the url  even though the url appears right in the address bar When prompted for credentials you would need to Cancel  and click the address bar and reload the page from pressing enter  Now enter the correct password

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This isn t exactly what the question is asking for but in case you accidentally saved basic auth credentials and want to clear them or update them   https   support google com accounts answer 6197437   Open Chrome   At the top right  click More   and then Settings  At the bottom  click Advanced  Under  Passwords and forms   click Manage passwords  Under  Saved Passwords   click Remove on the site you want to clear saved basic auth credentials    Steps 1-4 can be quickly navigated with this link  chrome   settings passwords   This worked in Chrome Version 59 0 3071 115

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Press the key combination Ctrl Shift Delete You will see popup in chrome  Check the above options and click clear data and you are done

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For Chrome 66 I found the relevant option under    Top right     menu -  More Tools -  Clear Browsing Data Click the  Advanced  tab Check the  Passwords  box  and uncheck others you don t want cleared  Click  Clear Data    Using a new Incognito window is probably easier  but for those times you forget and want to clear the saved password  this does the trick without having to restart Chrome  which also works

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I am using Chrome Version 83 and this is how I did it  Before following the steps make sure the tab of the site  whose Auth Details you want to delete is closed    First  go to Settings    Privacy and security      Then click on Site settings option     Then click on View permissions and data stored across sites option     Search for the site whose Auth info you want to delete  In this example  I am using Stack Overflow     Now click on the site and then click the Clear data button      Now restart your browser and you will be asked for a fresh login  For restarting you can type chrome   restart in the address bar

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Chrome uses the same Internet Options as IE    Try opening your Internet Options and removing the URL from  Trusted Sites   This should regenerate a 401 call for credentials when you restart the browser and visit the URL again   You may need to remove it from  Intranet Sites  as well

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A lot of great suggestions here  I ll give the one that I found the most efficient    Just change your password in the site  The old authentication will became outdated and Chrome will request it again   Since I had a terminal open  I did a simple script to change the password and in two keypresses it were incremented

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I m using Chrome 75  What I ve found is that restarting Chrome doesn t work  But restarting Chrome AND opening the developer tools does work  I don t have any explanation why this should be

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