Where is the password generator?

You're welcome, bjkeefe. 😀

Thanks, ag_mike_d.

Thanks for your reply and bringing this to our attention, bjkeefe. I've removed the earlier, duplicate comment.

Have a great day!

AliH1P Thanks for noticing my comment, and for your reply.

I just noticed that I have two (previous) comments in this thread. I thought I was editing the original one, in place, so to speak, but I guess not. Sorry about that. If you or another moderator of the forum wants to delete the earlier one, that's fine with me.

Hey bjkeefe, thank you for your feedback. I'm glad to hear you've identified a way to generate a password within 1Password 8. I certainly understand this may not be ideal and I've added your voice to the internal request to bring back the item-independent password generator.

Ali

ref: IDEA-I-298

Let me add my voice of disappointment about the disappearance of the password generator. I'm sorry, but I don't want to add something to my browser to do this. I just want what the previous version had: an option that was accessible via right-clicking the icon in the System Tray (Windows, obvs).

Besides creating a new account, another reason I might want to generate a new password is because 1Password is telling me a site has been compromised. [See UPDATE below]

This shouldn't be hard. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops. You already had the functionality. Please bring it back.

Thank you.

[UPDATE] I now see that I can generate a new password for an existing Login item by (1) visiting that item, (2) clicking Edit, (3) clicking in the password field, and (4) clicking Create New Password in the pop-up that appears.

I also noticed that I can more generally generate a new password by (1) clicking the three dots in the upper left corner, (2) Clicking New Item, (3) clicking Password, (4) clicking in the Password field, (5) clicking Create New Password in the pop-up that appears. After clicking the "Use" button, I can then copy that new generated password, and paste it where I need it. So, not as bad as I thought it was initially, but I still hope you'll bring back the option in the menu associated with the System Tray icon.

Thanks again.

Thanks for your message, @JRGjesager. I've cast a vote on your behalf letting the team know that you're missing the password generator in app.

With regard to this feature in 1Password in the browser, the password generator is available by following the steps in this guide: Create a custom password.

I hope that helps!

ref: IDEA-I-298

I'm also really missing the 'generate password' in all context (right click) menus - both in the browser and in the app.

@LoopVogel

Just an FYI: The shells don't care about what characters are in your passwords. Rather, each shell has a set of meta-characters that must be properly escaped / quoted to protect them from being interpreted by the shell. Other characters that would be problematic without proper quoting, would be semicolon, dollar sign, single-, double-, or back-quote, vertical bar (pipe), and possibly asterisk and a few others depending on context. Proper quoting is up to any script writer interpreting user or program input and using it in such a way that the shell is interpreting such data.

Ambiguous characters:

Oracle databases baulk at passwords containing the 'at' symbol (@).
Linux shells baulk at passwords containing the 'dollar' symbol ($). [I think, if not Linux, someplace else that I've encountered]

I've certainly experienced issues with some symbols in a password entered via certain websites.