How to copy/paste your password in PayPal's change password form

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PayPal blocks copy/paste actions in their "change password" form, 
citing some irrelevant security issues as the reason. That's a 
load of crap, and they know it -- disabling copy/paste makes it a 
lot harder to use a decent password generator and a lot easier to 
screw up your pwd when retyping, especially if it's a long one 
(as it should be!).

So, here's the quick'n'dirty way to use an externally generated 
password in your PayPal account:

* open the change password form;
* open up the console in your browser of choice (recent versions 
  of Firefox: CTRL+Shift+K, Chrome/Chromium: CTRL+Shift+J);
* you should see an input form at the bottom of the console; 
  copy/paste each of the following lines, replacing the string 
  "password" with your desired pwd and hitting enter after each 
  one:

  document.getElementById("new_password").value = "password";
  document.getElementById("retype_password").value = "password";

* close the console by pressing the relevant key combo once 
  again, submit the form & voilà!

Apparently PayPal isn't too happy when one calls them and complains about this retarded "security" feature. I believe the fact that I was reading this while on hold didn't help much because they now think I'm intending to "hack the PayPal website if that's even possible"(the consultant's words, not mine). Ah well, I should probably make that payment before I get suspended.

$("#new_password").val("yournewpassword");
$("#retype_password").val("yournewpassword");
from console works

Update: Same old security theatre, shiny new selector

document.getElementById("pwdID").value = "password";
document.getElementById("retype_password").value = "password";

Must be 8-20 characters.

Here we go again:
document.getElementById("password").value = "password";
document.getElementById("retypepassword").value = "password";

Values are pwdID and retype_password.

And we entrust them to our credit cards? lol
Thanks for the Gist

IDs have changed again. They now are newPassword and confirmNewPassword
I had to tryhard a few document.getElementsByTagName("input")[16].id; to find out. |_|

Thanks for updated IDs!

this should work with all the ids:

var pw = "password";
if (pw.length < 8) { alert("Password too short!\nMin 8 chars!"); return; }
else if (pw.length > 20 { alert("Password too long!\nMax 20 chars!"); return; }
var ids = ["pwdID", "retype_password", "newPassword", "confirmNewPassword", "password", "retypepassword"];
var arrayLength = ids.length;
for (var i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) {
    document.getElementById(ids[i]).value = pw;
}
document.getElementById("change_password").removeAttribute("disabled")
//document.getElementsByName("validatePwdForm")[0].submit();