Using Your LastPass Account

Introduction

Use your Pima College LastPass account to store and autofill your login credentials when you sign in to different websites and online accounts. Within your LastPass vault, you can also securely store your notes, documents, photos, videos, audio files, addresses, payment cards, and bank accounts.

In this article:

Passwords in Your LastPass Vault

Entering Your Passwords Individually from Within Your LastPass Vault

Entering Your Passwords Individually from Your Web Browser

Importing Passwords into LastPass

Logging In to a Website Via Your Password Vault

What if LastPass Doesn’t Autofill My Login Credentials?

Notes, Documents, and Files in Your LastPass Vault

Adding a Note from Within Your LastPass Vault

Adding a Note from Your Web Browser

Accessing Your Notes Via Your LastPass Vault

Accessing Your Notes Via Your Web Browser

Moving, Deleting, or Recovering Items in Your LastPass Vault

Moving Items to an Existing or Shared Folder

Deleting Items and Folders from Your Vault

Permanently Deleting an Item or Folder

More Information

After you add passwords to your LastPass vault, you can launch your login directly from your vault or go to the website manually and let LastPass autofill your credentials for you.

There are two ways to enter your passwords into your LastPass vault. You can:

  • Manually enter each of your passwords individually, either from within your LastPass vault or from your web browser
  • Enter many of your passwords at once by importing them. This option is only available during the initial set-up of your LastPass vault. You can import your passwords from your web browser, personal files, spreadsheets, or another password manager.

Entering Your Passwords Individually from Within Your LastPass Vault

  1. Enter your vault and, from the sidebar menu, click Passwords.
  2. Click the Add Item icon in the lower-right corner of your vault, shown here.
    Screen capture of the Add Item icon, a red circle with a white plus sign in its center.
  3. Copy and paste the URL to the site login page you want to enter.
    Screen capture of the Add Password dialog box, with text entry fields to which the following instructions refer.
  4. Enter a password Name so that you can easily identify your saved password within your vault.
  1. Enter the Username and Site password that you normally use to log in to the site that you are entering. Depending on the site, this may be different from your LastPass login credentials.
  2. Click Save. This saves your login credentials to your LastPass vault. When you visit that site in future, LastPass applies those credentials automatically.

Entering Your Passwords Individually from Your Web Browser

  1. Visit the login page to the website you want to enter.
  2. Click the LastPass icon in your web browser tool bar.
    Screen capture of the LastPass toolbar icon, which looks like a partially-filled password field: three blue dots in a row and a vertical line cursor.
  3. Click Add Item from the drop-down menu.
  4. Click Password, which opens your LastPass vault.
    Screen capture of the drop-down menu, showing options of Password, Secure note, and Address. Password is the highlighted option.
  5. Confirm or change the password Name so you can easily identify your saved password within your vault.
  1. Enter the Username and Site password that you normally use to log in to the site that you are entering. Depending on the site, this may be different from your LastPass login credentials.
  2. Click Save. This saves your login credentials to your LastPass vault. When you visit that site in the future, LastPass applies those credentials automatically.

Importing Passwords into LastPass

LastPass can import passwords saved in your browser’s password manager, other password manager products, or files exported from other sources.

  1. Open your Vault by clicking the LastPass icon in your browser’s toolbar, and then click More options.
  2. Click Advanced.
  3. Click Import.
  4. Choose either to import from the current browser’s password manager or Other. If you select Other, an import wizard opens.

Logging In to a Website Via Your Password Vault

  1. Enter your vault and click Passwords from the sidebar menu.
  2. Hover over the name or icon of the site you want to access.
  3. Click Launch and the site’s login page automatically opens.
    Screen capture of the Launch button with the check box in its upper-right corner unchecked.
  4. Respond to the LastPass prompt to fill in your credentials and log in.

What if LastPass Doesn’t Autofill My Login Credentials?

  1. Visit the login page of the site you want to enter.
  2. Click the LastPass icon in your web browser tool bar. It may have a notification indicator that LastPass is ready to fill in your login credentials for you, as shown here.
    Screen capture of the LastPass toolbar icon, with a notification indicator, which is a white number centered in a small red circle in the upper-right corner of the toolbar icon.
  3. Click directly on the name or icon of the site as it appears in the drop-down menu OR hover over it and click the Fill icon, shown here.
    Screen capture of the Fill icon, which is similar to the LastPass toolbar icon, except that is features white dots and vertical bar on a dark grey background.
  4. LastPass auto-fills your credentials so you can log in.

In addition to passwords, you can securely store important or sensitive information and materials in your LastPass vault. To do so, add a note to your vault. Organize your notes using folders and store them with their related passwords and information.

You can manually enter notes directly into your vault, paste notes from your clipboard, or add attachments. You can add attachments like documents, photos, videos, presentations, audio files, or spreadsheets to your vault so that you can maintain access to them if they’re ever lost or misplaced.

There are two ways to add a note to your LastPass vault: from within your vault or from your web browser.

Adding a Note from Within Your LastPass Vault

  1. Enter your LastPass vault and click Notes from the sidebar menu.
  2. Click the Add Item icon in the lower-right corner of your vault, shown here.
    Screen capture of the Add Item icon, a red circle with a white plus sign in its center.
  3. Enter a note Name so that you can easily identify your saved note within your vault.
  1. To enter your note, do one of the following:
    • If you are entering a text-only note, manually enter your text or paste text from your clipboard into the textbox provided.
    • If you are entering a note that is a file, click Add Attachment, and then select the attachment file from the pop-up window.
      Screen capture of Add Note dialog box. On the left side are fields for note name, folder in which to store note, and the Add Attachment button. On the right side is a large text box where you can enter the note text manually.
  2. Click Save to add your note to your vault, where you can access it via your LastPass vault or web browser.

Adding a Note from Your Web Browser

  1. In your web browser tool bar, click the LastPass icon.
    Screen capture of the LastPass toolbar icon, which looks like a partially-filled password field: three blue dots in a row and a vertical line cursor.
  2. On the drop-down menu, click Add Item.
  3. Click Secure Note. Your LastPass vault opens.
    Screen capture of three menu items: Password, Secure Note, and Address. Secure Note is selected.
  4. Enter a note Name so that you can easily identify your saved note within your vault.
  1. To enter your note, do one of the following:
    • If you are entering a note that is text only, manually enter your text or paste it from your clipboard into the textbox provided.
    • If you are entering a note that is an attachment, click Add Attachment and then, from the pop-up window, select the attachment file that you want to add to your vault.
  2. Click Save to add your note to your vault, where you can access it via your LastPass vault or web browser.

Accessing Your Notes Via Your LastPass Vault

  1. From the sidebar menu in your vault, click Notes.
  2. Hover over the name and icon of the note you want to access, and then click Edit. Your note opens.

Accessing Your Notes Via Your Web Browser

  1. In your web browser tool bar, click the LastPass icon.
    Screen capture of the LastPass toolbar icon, which looks like a partially-filled password field: three blue dots in a row and a vertical line cursor.
  2. On the drop-down menu, click All Items.
  3. On the subsequent drop-down menu, click Notes.
  4. Select the folder where the note you want is stored.
  1. Select the note you want to access. It opens from your LastPass vault.

Moving Items to an Existing or Shared Folder

  1. Enter your LastPass vault and find the item you want to move.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Right click the item.
    • Check the box to the upper-right of the item, and then, at the top of your vault, select the Actions drop-down menu.
      Screen capture of the Launch button with the check box to its upper-right checked, next to a screen capture of the Actions drop-down menu.
  3. Click Move to Folder and then select the folder to which you want to add the item.
    Screen capture of the contents of the Actions drop-down menu, with the fourth item, Move to Folder, highlighted.
  4. Click Yes to confirm, at which point the item moves to the selected folder.

Deleting Items and Folders from Your Vault

  1. Enter your LastPass vault and find the item or folder you want to delete.
  2. Hover over the name or icon of the item and then click the trash icon in the lower-right corner.
    Screen capture of two icons from the lower-right corner of the vault window: Settings, represented by a wrench, and Delete, represented by a trash can.
  3. When prompted, click Yes to confirm deletion of the item, at which point LastPass deletes the item or folder. You can now either permanently delete it or recover it from the deleted items folder of your vault.

Recovering Deleted Items and Folders

  1. Enter your LastPass vault and, on the sidebar menu, click Advanced Options.
  2. Click View Deleted Items and then find the item or folder you want to recover.
  3. Hover over the name or icon of the item and check the box in its upper-right corner to select the item.
  4. At the top of your vault, select the Actions drop-down menu and then click Restore.
  5. When prompted, click Yes to restore the item, at which point the item or folder you selected is restored to your LastPass vault.

Permanently Deleting an Item or Folder

  1. Enter your LastPass vault and, on the sidebar menu, click Advanced Options.
  2. Click View Deleted Items and then find the item you want to delete permanently.
  3. Hover over the name or icon of the deleted item you want to delete permanently and then click the trash icon to the left of the item.
    Screen capture of two icons from the lower-right corner of the vault window: Settings, represented by a wrench, and Delete, represented by a trash can.
  4. When prompted, click Yes to confirm, which permanently deletes the item; it can no longer be recovered.

More Information

You can learn more about using the software with the following resources provided by LastPass:

 

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