How best to share passwords within a family.

sTYEnreqrRj9
sTYEnreqrRj9
Community Member
in Families

I have two separate 1Password accounts (complete with separate ID's and passwords) for two separate computers, one for me and one for my son. He has a private vault for his own passwords, but I need to share certain items from my own vault with him. What's the best way to do so? Is there a way for me to share individual items with him that he adds to his own private vault? Should there be a shared vault to which we both have access? Or can he grant me access to his vault so I can add and update items directly?

1Password Version: 8.10.44
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: MacOS 14.6.1
Browser: Chrome

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  • ag_tommy
    ag_tommy
    edited September 23

    @sTYEnreqrRj9

    Can you clarify? Do you have two distinct accounts or are you talking about one of yours and one for your son where you are both part of the same family? If you are part of the same family you would create a shared vault with him and then place the data there where he can access it. If the items are not going to be one way and you wish them to be live updating back and forth you'll use the move option and then keep them in that newly created vault.

    Create and share vaults

    Move and copy items

    • The Personal/Private vault cannot be shared.
  • sTYEnreqrRj9
    sTYEnreqrRj9
    Community Member

    My apologies for the delayed reply. We are both in the same family.
    And if I understand you correctly, I would:

    1. Create a shared vault
    2. Copy the items into the shared vault
    3. Share the vault with him
    4. He could copy the material from the shared vault (or just leave it in the shared vault)

    Is that correct?

    Is there any way to make certain he has any updated items? For example, I have an item with login information for our family health insurance account. If I need to change the password for the provider's Web portal, I would update that information in my private vault. What's the best way to get the updated version to him?

    Thank you for your help.

  • ag_tommy
    ag_tommy
    edited September 24

    @sTYEnreqrRj9

    No, not quite. You'd place the item in the shared vault. It would live there and not in your private vault. On his side it would also live in that vault and not any others.

    To ensure you both have any up to date changes (anytime the other one changes it) the data would live in that shared vault where each of you can access it as needed. It would not be moved out of this vault. If it happened to be then the data would get stale after a while and you'd need to share another copy either.

  • sTYEnreqrRj9
    sTYEnreqrRj9
    Community Member

    OK. Thanks

  • ag_tommy
    ag_tommy

    You're welcome. Let us know if you have other questions.