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flozza
2 years agoNew Contributor
Browser extension does not prompt for unlock when using multiple accounts
The 1Password browser extension will not prompt to unlock an account/vault if there are multiple accounts connected and one has already been unlocked.
I use two accounts, on two separate browsers....
Roukanken
2 years agoNew Contributor
Ideally, there would also be some shortcut to unlock other accounts, even if it's from one browser.
I have 2 accounts on my 1password, a Business one paid by my employer, and one Family account that was created from this one, so this should be a fairly common setup as they are included together. My setup is to use a reasonable subset of vaults from both accounts, as I need to log in to some of my personal accounts even at work, from the same browser.
But whenever one of the accounts gets locked and needs the master password, I have to do the same process as was described above: go to desktop app, change my vaults to one account only, to trigger password prompt, unlock it, not to forget to change the vaults back to my preferred ones, then go back to browser and autofill.
A decent solution would be to put an "unlock account" option near password fields (in autofill as last option? Another button near the "open autofill one"?) if an account is locked, which would just trigger the default password login screen for filling a master password and unlocking another account (of course, not a biometrics or OS login one)
Note that this issue also goes deeper, as this wouldn't fix passkeys, or desktop fill-ins, which would too require this. Notably passkeys, as they would instead propagate to OS sign in for hardware keys, if no passkey is found in 1pw (because it's in a locked vault)