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Former Member
5 years agoTwo accounts - now needs two different passwords every time you login?
With the old version, I was able to have a personal account and a business account. Once I connected them, I only had to use my personal password going forward. Now it looks like I have to enter a password for each account every time I restart my computer?
Is there an option to go back to how it used to deal with accounts? Or am I missing somenting?
65 Replies
- BenJetsonNew Contributor
+1 for adding the option to retrieve the password for a locked account from a vault that is already unlocked.
This could replicate the familiar behavior from 1Password 7, while providing greater transparency about how the account is unlocked and giving users the choice about whether they want this behavior or not.Touch ID is a nice workaround, but I also use Mac minis or MacBooks with the lid closed where Touch ID is not available.
I also use a different Apple ID for my work computers, so my Apple Watch on my personal Apple ID is not an option for unlocking all accounts on those computers, unfortunately.
- Former Member
I have decided to downgrade to 1Password 7 until this changes. I understand the reasons for the change, but please consider having the option to enable the old functionality, or to mark passwords as being for other vaults to enable quick access. As a software developer myself I realize that sometimes my favorite features, even those that are "correct", may not be the ones my users want and I have to be able to adjust to the wanted functionality not just what I want to do.
- Former Member
Please just make a setting if you like to unlock all accounts by unlocking one account, or just to unlock the one specific account. Having the same password for my corporate and private account is just not a solution. You really missed the point here.
- wavesoundDedicated Contributor
Yes, I have multiple accounts with other families that I use to share items between. Typing in 4 passwords to get all the vaults unlocked is remarkably insane oversight. Can't we just use one account as our primary account to unlock our other accounts/shared accounts?
Also, how come we implement the capability to unlock the app with one password on the phone app (iOS) and not the computer (macOS)?
- fieldsnyNew Contributor
roustem I'd think allowing it to look up the account password in an unlocked vault would be a fine solution. I'd like to see that happen automatically upon unlocking. There could be a toggle in the vault password item for "automatically unlock this vault". Having to do it manually each time would still be kind of tedious (see my search problem above for why I want all vaults unlocked when I'm using the app).
- roustem
1Password Team
I don't even know the master passwords for some of my subsidiary accounts... because I store them in 1Password. They're 30 character random strings for increased security. Now every time I need to enter one of them, I need to remember to copy it to the clipboard (less secure) before bringing up the unlock screen (because there's no way to access passwords in an unlocked vault while that dialog is up, and then paste it.
I had a similar issue myself for one of the accounts that is rarely used. Quick Access (⌘⇧Space) can be very useful here.
Someone made a suggestion to let 1Password look up the account password in already unlocked account(s) and unlock it for you automatically. Perhaps that could be a solution?
- roustem
1Password Team
is easily solved by letting the user choose which account should unlock the others.
I had to help many 1Password customers and computer users in general, including my family members. In so many cases, when prompted for a password, people have trouble understanding what password they need to enter. Adding more options would not make it easier.
And just a few days ago, we had a customer losing their data because for many months they unlocked 1Password with the password that was different from their real account password.
- roustem
1Password Team
@HenryY I see where you are coming from. Please note that your account password alone, without the Secret Key, won't be enough to access the account.
It also would be very unusual for the business to demand your password. The administrators/owners of the business account already have an option of recovering access to the employee account if necessary.
However, the business policies are different everywhere. If you believe that your company could do something like this then it may not be a good idea to keep your personal data on the work device.
- Former Member
roustem I currently have both Personal and Work 1Password accounts logged into my client. I'm hesitant to have the vaults for both accounts share the same password because of the following scenario. Say, I am somehow coerced of forced into surrendering the password for the work account (which is the account I do not own, and do not pay for). The secrets in my personal account would then be compromised. This seems like a true security regression.
- fieldsnyNew Contributor
Here's another bad real-world use case. Someone asked me if I had a password for a shared account. I searched for it in 1Password on my Mac, and it didn't come up, so I told them I didn't have it. I realized later when I did a similar search on my phone that I did indeed have it, and it was in a shared vault that was locked on the Mac. Now, "of course", you might say, "how would it know what was in a locked vault?". Which misses the point. This is actively hostile UX.