How to clear basic authentication details in chrom

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

1. Open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More > and then Settings.
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. Under "Passwords and forms," click Manage passwords.
5. 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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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!

Answer 5

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.