Sharing passwords between users

blacknell

I have 2 licenses of iPassword for the two of us, but a lot of the password information we use is shared.

Can we both access the same password keychain file and yet distinguish which record it uses

For example, we both log in to HSBC but have different id's. Does it remember which was used on each mac?

khad

Right now, sharing is either all or nothing. If you wanted to share a single data file (thus sharing the same Master Password) you can store multiple Login items for the same site. You can give them titles to make it simple to tell them apart: "Gmail - John" and "Gmail - Wendy" for example.

If you prefer to have separate data files it gets slightly more complicated, but there is a way to make it easier. Importing and exporting 1Password Interchange Files is a great way to transfer information between different installations of 1Password (File > Export). It is not automated, but for my purposes it works well since I am not constantly changing the passwords I share with others. This way each user can have private 1Password data and import only the items they need from the rest of the team.

(Please be aware that the 1PIF information is not encrypted and should be handled with care while in transit and securely deleted once the information is safely imported into an encrypted 1Password data file.)

We are looking at some ways to enable sharing in the future, but it is quite a substantial change to how 1Password works right now which means a lot of time and testing is required to add this feature.

So with that said, I really can't make any promises on a time frame for when we may be able to bring this to 1Password, but that doesn't mean we won't. We've always believed in trying to be as honest and realistic with our users as possible rather than making lots of empty promises.

I'm sorry I can't give you a more positive answer right now, but thank you so much for letting us know that you would find this useful. We do take the number of users who request a feature into consideration when we decide on our feature lists. :)