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rmpel
4 years agoNew Contributor
change request: "Password required every two weeks" - remove, change or make optional
Hi. Being a long long time user of 1Password, this is the first time I am genuinely bothered by a feature of the software;
The "Password required every two weeks" feature.
I know it is "for secu...
Jack_P_1P
1Password Team
4 years agoHey rmpel:
The short version is we never want you to forget your account password as EnerJi mentioned (thanks for the assist! 😎). Biometry is great, but there are situations where for whatever reason or another, biometry fails, and in that situation you'd have to enter your account password to unlock 1Password. Without remembering your password, there's a risk of being permanently locked out of your 1Password account.
As for why accounts can no longer unlock each other, and instead require to be unlocked with each individual account password (generally speaking, we'd recommend using a single account password across all 1Password accounts you may have), our Principal Security Architect Jeffrey Goldberg has written a much better explanation of why the change than I could: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/608291/#Comment_608291
Let me know if that makes sense, or if you'd like me to dig into it further with you!
Jack