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NomadUK
3 years agoOccasional Contributor
Re-integrate the timing of locking of vaults
Having just switched over to 1P8 from 1P7, and subscribing to two separate vaults (one for personal use, one for work), I just now discovered that the work vault locks itself on a different schedule ...
NomadUK
3 years agoOccasional Contributor
The (only) funny thing about this is that the password on my work account is actually less complex than the password on my personal account.
The problem here is that it's astoundingly inconvenient to unlock the work account. I'm trying to get something done, I try to log into a website or app, and, after several seconds, realise that the reason I can't find the password is that the work account has locked itself (on a schedule other than my personal account). I then have to open the 1Password app, go find the work account item in the sidebar, click on it, enter the password, and then go back to my app or website to get the password entered. I cannot emphasise enough how annoying this is.
I don't have a fingerprint reader on my Mac keyboard, I don't own an Apple Watch. The only way I know of to unlock the thing is the procedure above, which is clunky and inconvenient, when it used to be virtually invisible to me (typing my single master password into the box was a few seconds of reflex action). This change really is poorly thought out (I find it not at all surprising that appeasing business interests has made life for the average user more difficult).
Here are my suggestions for changes that should be made:-
The timing of lockouts on all accounts needs to be synchronised or separately modifiable, by the user.
No account should be locked due to 'inactivity' unless all of them are. The fact that I haven't happened to use a password from a given account shouldn't matter if I've been using passwords from other accounts all the while; to me, they are all one big vault if I have them all open.
Restore the option of using a single master password to unlock all of my accounts, as I used to.
The mechanism for entering the password for an account needs to be made much simpler and more straightforward. I should not have to launch the entire 1Password app to unlock an account that has locked itself due to inactivity.
-mike