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Greater flexibility for generating new passwords?
I generally prefer to use memorable passwords (or phrases), but the way 1Password generates these, they rarely meet a site's password requirements. You almost always need to add a number, a capital letter, and sometimes a symbol. I know that you can manually edit new passwords, but I would really like a way to preconfigure 1Password to give me a memorable password, but with these types of characters included. I don't understand why 1Password has to be so rigid in the password options it offers. I did notice1Password offer a "smart" password for the first time this morning, which could be ok, except I would like them to resemble a memorable password rather than random characters. Can't we please get some more configurability and flexibility?
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andrew_l_1P1Password Team
Appreciate the additional details, siplhium! Sounds like a smart and memorable password is ideal, I'll add some notes to the feature requests I mentioned.
Thanks andrew_l_1P . To be explicit, I'd like to configure passwords that are a) "memorable"; b) can contain what are traditionally regarding as "separators"; i.e., the characters listed in that menu now, except for numbers and symbols ; and 3) can contain capital letter, a number and a symbol.
This meets the most password requirements that I see, keeps the passwords relatively memorable, but is also considerably stronger than memorable passwords without numbers and symbols.
- andrew_l_1P
Hi siplhium,
Thanks for sharing your feedback, I think you make a good point about how our current implementation of "smart passwords" is exclusively random. We have a couple feature requests to improve this and make it easier to add to generated passwords, so I'll add your voice to those.
I'd recommend jdiv726's workaround (thanks for providing that!) in the meantime. Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂
ref: IDEA-I-1469
ref: IDEA-I-868 Interesting. I didn't know. I never would have considered these to be "separators". I'd really like to have both. But thanks for the tip.
I believe 1P gives you those options unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean. Here's a screenshot of a bogus memorable password with all the options given
