Question

Universal Autofill of Mac Login suggests wrong computer

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
July 1, 2023
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I was excited to learn that 1Password 8's Universal Autofill can fill Mac login prompts. So I set it up on my iMac, and it worked. Flush with my success, I set it up on my MacBook Pro, and it worked there too.

But, of course the iMac's item synched to the MacBook Pro and vice versa. But, that's no problem, because the name of the item is the same as the computer name, right?

Wrong. Now, whenever I try to fill on the iMac, it defaults to the MacBook Pro's login entry. And this is significant, because I use different passwords on the two computers.

Why doesn't the autofill default to filling the login for right computer?

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1P_Dave

1Password Employee

Hello @mschmitt! 👋

Universal Autofill detecting different Macs and suggesting the appropriate Mac Login sounds like a good idea and I've filed a feature request on your behalf. For the time being, you can manually search for the right password to fill:

Press Shift-Command-Space bar to open Quick Access.
Search for the appropriate password.
Press Shift-Enter to fill the password into the disk image dialog box.

Thank you for the suggestion! 🙂

-Dave

ref: PB-34218895

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mschmittAuthor

Another thing I'm seeing is that when macOS prompts for the password, it opens a dialog box in the middle of the screen. And then when I press command-\ to fill it in, the 1Password dialog box also opens in the exact same spot, under the macOS dialog. So, the macOS dialog covers up the 1Password dialog and it is harder to see which password is selected.

1P_Dave

1Password Employee

@mschmitt

Thank you for reporting the issue. On macOS we're unable to position the Quick Access window on top of a system prompt however our developers do have an internal work item open to look into having Quick Access open next to the system prompt. While I can't make any promises on when, or if, this functionality will make it to 1Password I have added your comments to the work item to help show that this functionality would be useful.

For now, you'll need to manually move either the system prompt or the Quick Access window. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

-Dave

ref: dev/core/core#13247

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mschmittAuthor

Maybe should generalize and allow setting any login to be machine-specific (or conversely, "don't fill on this machine").