Password breach report question

Hi Dave,

Auto-type as it stands does meet the needs of this use case.

The use case is as described by the OP: for 1Password to detect which password to fill/type based on the name of the window. 

This is functionality that LastPass has, and in our big cutover to bring all staff onto 1Password, the lack of this capability was a dealbreaker for several people, so we had to keep LastPass licenses for them. I wasn't thrilled about this, from a cyber risk point of view, but I'm hopeful that 1Password will eventually be able to do this so we can leave LastPass behind.

For us, one example is an IT admin that has to log in to multiple systems to administer them. They might use remote access software such as Remote Desktop in Windows. When logging into a system called HOST123, the window title would be unique to that host, and might be something like "HOST123 - Remote Desktop Connection". For this use case, we need 1Password to be able to identify the window title, and then find the correct item to fill based on that (previously saved) window title.

In this example, 1Password would look in items for a window title that matches "HOST123 - Remote Desktop Connection" and surface that to the top of the list when the hotkey is pressed. Without this feature, the user needs to manually search all items. There may be many items containing the text "HOST123", including strings like "HOST1233", so the user has to type quite a lot of the title, eg "HOST123 - Rem". Searching might seem like a minor inconvenience... but now imagine there are hundreds of such hosts. And they could be named by IP address instead of hostname, eg "10.1.2.3" or "10.1.2.5". Trying to type IP addresses manually into a search would be a pain, but there is also significant risk, because even if it is pasted or typed accurately, that search would also return items containing "10.1.2.32", "10.1.2.39" etc. The risk is that the admin enters the wrong system or uses the wrong password a few times and gets locked out.

In such a case, being able to use an exact match of the window title, as LastPass does, becomes an essential requirement.

Hope this answers your question.

Cheers

Geoff.