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current password

A current password is the existing password that is presently valid for a user’s account.

In plain English

It means the password the account already uses right now. “Current” distinguishes the one that still works from one that was used before or one chosen to replace it.

In context

Here, it labels the field for the password that is already valid for the account.

Situation
Setting passwords, multifactor authentication, recovery codes, and trusted devices
What it communicates
labels the field for the existing password in the password-change form

Meaning limits

The term itself identifies only the password already valid at that time, not whether any particular entry matches it.

Examples

“Dana's current password for the account was different from the one she used last winter.”

Core meaning

“The change form requested the current password in one box and a replacement in another.”

In context

  • password Broader Term

    A current password is a password.

  • new password Contrast

    A new password is a replacement password, not the one already valid at that time.