Security

drdancheng

When I set up my master password I was given the option to include a hint in case I forget my password in the future. I noticed the hint is displayed when I tried to log into my iPassword.html folder from my dropbox. That means if anyone gets into my dropbox, he will have the hint to help them to figure our my password. So...I have the following questions:
1. In order to use the 1PasswordAnywhere feature, I cannot include my dropbox login in my 1Password login list. Does that mean I have to remember my dropbox password separately? With the hint display after one logs in the dropbox folder, wouldn't my dropbox password be just as important as my master password?
2. Can I eliminate the hint display?
3. How do I go back and erase the hint completely?

Thanks in advance.

hawkmoth

There are a few passwords that I remeber, besides my 1Password master password. Dropbox is one of them.

You can't change the master password hint unless you change the master password. But you can "change" it to the same password. You can leave the password hint blank if you like. But then you won't have the hint for yourself either.

I can't answer the question about suppressing the hint on Dropbox while using 1PasswordAnywhaere.

drdancheng

Thanks for your reply. In that case, it is not 1Password but two including the Dropbox password. In that case, I better go and change my dropbox password to something harder to figure out but easy to remember.

hawkmoth

Have you read the blog post here on creating better passwords? Here is the link, just in case. Toward Better Master Passwords.

I've adopted Diceware for creating passwords that are strong, yet memorable. That approach is discussed in that post.

FWIW, I also remember the password for my main email account and for my Apple ID.

Drew_AG

Thanks for the assist, @hawkmoth! :)

@drdancheng, if you have more questions about that, please let us know.

drdancheng

Yes. Thanks for asking. I do have some other questions:

1. Please confirm that with iPassword iOS I cannot save website login. Correct?

2. I save three accounts of the same bank on my iMac. It works well with both my iMac and iPad but not my iPhone. On my iPhone the same account pops up disregard which account I tap. What could be the problem?

3. I tried saving spread sheet file (number) to the secured document. Some file was rejected, It said they were bundle and folder though they were not. What could be the problem?

Thanks.

littlebobbytables

Hi @drdancheng,

1. You're unable to save a new Login item in 1Password for iOS in the automated way you can on the Mac but you can still manually create new items from within 1Password for iOS and they will sync with your Mac. We do hope to improve on the iOS extension but for the moment you can't use the extension to save like you can on the Mac.
2. Just to clarify, no matter what Login item you use it always shows you as logged in on a particular account? My first thought is to clear all the website data in Safari to see if it's some kind of odd cookie thing. On your iPhone go to Settings > Safari and select the Clear History and Website Data option. Does logging in with one of your other accounts still exhibit this strange behaviour?
3. What version of Numbers are you running? I believe certain versions did use the bundle format and maybe even depending on if you had anything attached inside. For example, if you save an RTF in textedit it will use a file if it's just text and standard formatting and then save as a bundle if there are attachments. If you right click on the file in question from a Finder window do you have an option near the top titled Show Package Contents?