Security Questions and Type of 1Password Item

Hello @wab! 👋

Thanks for the question! In my experience, security questions are most often used with logins which is why they're available as an option when creating a Login item.

Can you tell me a little more about where else you're seeing security questions being used? I can pass your use cases along to the team. 🙂

-Dave

I think the distinction between "logins" and "passwords" is unclear and moot. Today, TurboTax asked me if I wanted to password protect my tax file. I said yes and entered in 1Password as a "password" item. Lo and behold TurboTax asked me to provide the answer to a security question and 1Password had no functionality to support this. I really think that any item that has a password field should provide the option of adding security questions. That seems like it would be easy enough to do.

@wab

Thanks for the reply. Is the security question that you set specific to that password protected tax file? Or is it a security question for your TurboTax account as a whole? Do you already have an existing Login Item for your TurboTax account itself?

I'm not currently a customer of TurboTax and I appreciate you answering these questions so that I can better understand the situation. 🙂

-Dave

The security question is specific for that password protected tax file. I do have a TurboTax account and that login information is separate and different. I know it's unusual and different, but I'm finding these nuisance security questions are quite common in a variety of circumstances. Thanks.

@wab

Thank you for those additional details. I can see how adding a security question option to Password items would be useful and I've passed your suggestion along to the team.

For the time being, you can create a Login item and just leave the username field blank or add a custom password field to an existing Password item to generate a random security answer using the memorable option in the password generator: Customize your 1Password items

I hope that helps! 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-38301710

Thank you very much!

Thank you again for the feedback. 🙂

-Dave