Travel mode vaults

mikaell
mikaell
Community Member
in Business and Teams

Hi

I am trying to understand how Travel Mode is useful.

I am using 1Password for Business and have colleagues that are going on trips over the holidays.

As far as I understand I can set these people as "travelling" thus hiding vaults that are not marked as safe for travel, that includes the personal vault.

So, I need to have some store for credentials that ARE safe for travel.
One idea would be to create a separate vault and put "travel safe" stuff there, but If I create a new vault that vault becomes available to admins which is not desirable.

At this point the idea would be to mark users as travelling and thus hide ALL their vaults which is possible although somewhat impractical. One could store stuff like passport numbers, flight numbers somewhere else than in 1P, however I like using 1P for storing all kinds of information in one place. This could be a use for Apple Passwords and/or secure notes in iOS (at least for iPhone users, but we have Android users as well and I'd like a more general solution if possible).

I have seen mentions of a "travel vault" and I was hoping that was some kind of feature, however I think it just is a term used for describing a vault marked as "safe for travel" (but also available to admins).

SO, any ideas or hints!

Thanks
//Mikael

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Comments

  • ag_tommy
    ag_tommy

    Hey @mikaell

    When most folks describe a travel vault, it is just another vault they use for travel purposes. Yes, it would become available to admins in a business account.

    I use travel mode when needed and I use a travel vault for only the documents I need while traveling. I typically keep these in my personal account. Usually, what I do is:

    I completely sign out of my business account. I have a travel vault containing the barest of essentials in my personal account. Only that one vault remains on my device. When I'm at my destination, I can log back into the business or personal account and/or turn off travel mode, returning all vaults to the devices.

    Many folks would ask if I remove my Private/Personal vault. My personal choice is yes. There are some places where you would not want to share social media accounts if they searched your device, and so on. If they find 1Password and force me to open it, they will find travel documents and nothing else.

  • mikaell
    mikaell
    Community Member

    Hi @ag_tommy , thanks for your reply.

    I will remind all my colleagues that they have the possibility of using 1Password for Families for their own documents and credentials. All business vaults will be hidden/removed (unsafe for travel) while traveling.

    It would be a useful addition to have a "Travel vault", it could be a limited vault, that is not visible to admins for use when traveling on business.

  • ag_tommy
    ag_tommy

    You're welcome.