Show the digits below each character of the password [Under consideration]

chaoskcw

Hi

Many of my sites now require me to enter character x, y, z of the password. Given I use randomly generated passwords these can be long and its time consuming and error prone to pull out the relevant characters.

It would be great if one password offered a quick view of a password where you just entered the character you want and it highlighted this charcter, like fish-eye or anything. Support for multiple characters would be be grea,t but one would already help a lot.

In additiion it would be nice if you can store multiple password fields against one entry. Most of the banks and credit cards require a password, pin, memorable word, 5 digit code, and whos knows what else they will add. I use secure notes for these extra passwords, but based on the feature above, it would be handy to have additional password fields per entry and a way to add cusotm labels to them.

Memorable word:
Passcode
PAssprase

etc..

Stephen_C

Two quick answers:

1. The way I deal with what you mention in the first and second paragraphs of your post is to set out the password or phrase in a secure note with numbers spaced under each letter (or number) so that I can see at a glance the position of each letter or number in the password or phrase.
2. You can have multiple password fields per item. Simply add a custom field in a new section, complete it then click on the down arrow that appears at the far right and choose Password.

Stephen

chaoskcw

Hi Stephen

Thanks for the reply:

1. I have tried this but find that as most fonts have different sizes for different letters the alignment gets messy unless you use a lot of spacing which with large passwords and smaller screens (like mobiles) can be problematic. As such I still think built in app support for this would be a great additional feature.

2. Even with your explanation it took me a while to figure this out. But I see how this can be used now. Thanks, this is helpful.

chaoskcw

PS 1. Also having the password concealed as a password field but being able to pull out just some characters is more secure. I have had two instances recently where having concealed passwords has been useful. Secure notes dont allow the passwords to be concealed.

MikeT

Hi @chaoskcw,

This has been long requested and we'd like to to do some kind of overlay if it is possible in the UI we use. Basically, you press a shortcut and digits show up below each character.

At the moment, the suggestion #2 from Stephen_C is the way to approach this while also concealing the characters. Basically, you create multiple custom password fields for each set of characters and know which digit they below to. For an example, I do 2 character per field, I'll know they'll be 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc. You can use the option key to temporarily reveal the concealed passwords in 1Password mini.

Improvement ID #: OPM-1720

danco

My solution is to have the password as plain text in a Notes field, and group it into groups of five, which makes it fairly easy to identify the position of each character.

Megan

Hi @danco,

Thanks so much for sharing your solution here. :)

alexmuller

I'd love this feature too.

This workaround is ok:

…but I'm sure you could implement it better.

This feature was also discussed as "Password length ruler"

littlebobbytables

Hopefully we can come up with something elegant :smile: