1Password 8 Password Multiple Password Vault Unlock

Hey wavesound:

The official workaround is to reuse my password?!?!

Yes. To elaborate on why that's okay with 1Password accounts and not others: 1Password accounts are also protected by your Secret Key (as well as the fact that not even a hashed version of your account password never leaves your devices). Discovery of your account password, while definitely less than ideal, would not necessarily provide someone with access to your 1Password data. They would either need one of your devices, or your Secret Key as well.

To be clear, this is a deliberate design decision we made. As alluded to in the post Dave linked to, there are some hidden "gotchas" in the previous implementation of a "primary" account. If I use password123 as my account password for my personal 1Password account (which to be clear, I don't), and work enforces an account password policy, should my significantly weaker account password for my personal account be able to unlock my work 1Password account? With 1Password 7, if I had added my personal account to the app first, and then later joined an organization that was enforcing a password policy, my weaker account password would be able to unlock my work 1Password account, defeating the password policy my work was requiring.

If I have three different 1Password accounts, each with their own account password, the password I use to unlock 1Password 7 would depend on which order I added the 1Password account to that specific device. 1Password 8's method of unlocking accounts makes it very clear which password unlocks what account(s), as well as ensures any policies around passwords are followed. If I entered password123 to unlock 1Password 8, I would only unlock my personal information, and it wouldn't be until I entered my stronger work account password would my work details be available.

I personally have 3 1Password accounts I sign into on a regular basis, and all three of them (my family account, individual account, and my work account) have used the same account password from before the 1Password 8 apps were even a thing.

Windows Hello, Touch ID, Face ID, and Apple Watch unlock will continue to unlock each 1Password account that has been unlocked with an account password, even if they're different. If you'd prefer to use different account passwords, unlocking them each once, and then using the biometry options available on that specific version of 1Password 8 would be your best bet.

Jack