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Former Member
3 years agoWant to switch from LP to 1P, but hit a deal breaker. Solutions?
I've decided to try 1Password after using Lastpass Families for about 1 year. I really like the idea of password managers and using a unique complex password for every website. And 1Password implem...
Former Member
3 years agoThanks for your reply. I've been looking into this more and in theory, at least one of my issues should be resolvable. That is, I should be able to use a Windows Hello PIN to login and only need the master password as infrequently as every 30 days. I think I could sell that to the wife. The problem is that it's not working, and based on some other posts, it seems I'm not alone. I've tried everything in the 1P articles, and other posts, but still isn't working. I can't even get the Windows Hello button to show up even once.
I'm running Windows 10 Pro with MRB partition style. Not sure if that makes a difference here, waiting for a reply from support, to whom I've sent my diagnostic file.
Regarding the other issue of multiple accounts on a shared computer, I don't love the lack of choice here as a design philosophy. I've never been a fan of Apple because of that reason, with everything being locked down as if the user is going to break the system. Certainly that can happen, but it would be nice to allow users to knowingly take on some personal risk in order to use software the way the user wants, not the other way around.
I don't think I'm alone in having a shared family computer somewhere in the house. As simple as it may sound to switch to another Windows user profile, sometimes the purpose of having multiple Chrome profiles for each member of the family is that you need to share information between accounts quickly. I can copy some text from my wife's Chrome profile and paste it into mine, or my kids' profiles. You can't do that if you need to switch OS profiles. I think this is perhaps a blind spot for the developers, but I think in most families, not everyone has the same technical expertise or interest; they just want things to work.
For my case, I'm trying to decide whether I can just keep my wife's account logged into the living room HTPC. She tends to use that computer the most. And if I need to access my vault, I will need to go to the website and login. It seems unfortunate that basically the person who's logged in should be the least tech savvy member of the household, when there could be a more elegant technical solution.
All of this is a bunch of work, and it's not going smoothly. It's a real shame because 1P appears to be excellent otherwise, and this appears to be a great online community too. I'm sure other users are making the same calculation when deciding to migrate from Lastpass.
Sometimes people are willing to accept some risk in order for usability. Maybe it's easier to change your passwords periodically (which is good practice anyway), than deal with all these restrictions in the name of (possibly) incrementally increased security. Having different generated passwords for every site is already way better than reusing weak passwords, even if those passwords are generated through Lastpass, which is probably what most people do when they don't use a password manager at all.
Sigh.