Opening 1P Mini on login

Jasperhound

I've just moved from 1P 3 to 1P 5 as part of a machine change. How do I ensure that 1Password Mini opens when I login. I'm used to this behaviour and as the only user of my machine, consider it to be no great security risk.

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1Password Version: 5.4
Extension Version: 4.4.3
OS Version: 10.10.5
Sync Type: Dropbox

Stephen_C

All you need to do is to ensure that you've checked, in 1P5 > Preferences > General, Always keep 1Password mini running.

Stephen

Jasperhound

I have that checked already. What I'm trying to do is to have 1P5 and/or 1P Mini open when I am logged in without having to enter my 1P password. I have entered my 1P password in Keychain Access. Perhaps the problem is that I haven't used the right name in the Account box? At present it's just my name. If this is wrong, what should it be?

Stephen_C

What I'm trying to do is to have 1P5 and/or 1P Mini open when I am logged in without having to enter my 1P password

In that case you want to look at the settings under 1P5 > Preferences > Security, Auto-lock.

I have entered my 1P password in Keychain Access.

I don't think you really want to do that. You should really have your master password anywhere other than in your memory. :)

Stephen

Jasperhound

In that case you want to look at the settings under 1P5 > Preferences > Security, Auto-lock.

I have done that. Thanks for the comments. I understand them to mean that it is always necessary to unlock 1P5 once after logging in. This is tighter security than existed in 1P3 where 1P3 would use Keychain Access to unlock automatically.

You should really have your master password anywhere other than in your memory.

Great idea but unfortunately it can be defeated by advancing years.

danco

You're right, it is tighter security.

I believe that AgileBits found that people were forgetting their master password, and then having keychain trouble. And this happened often enough that they decided it was safer to remove the option.

Drew_AG

Hi @Jasperhound,

I'm sorry for the confusion about that! It sounds like you had been using the "Never prompt for master password" setting which we had in older versions of 1Password. When enabled, your master password would be stored into the OS X Login keychain and you would never need to enter it in 1Password, even after rebooting your Mac.

Unfortunately, that setting caused issues for many users because they would not need to type their master password for months or even years, as the login keychain remembered it for them. A lot of users would forget their master password because of that, and therefore, if the login keychain became corrupted or their master password was deleted from it accidentally, their 1Password data became inaccessible forever.

In order to prevent that scenario from ever happening again, that option was removed entirely, starting in 1Password 3.9.

As you already know, you can configure 1Password so it doesn't require your master password very often. But it's no longer possible to never enter it. But hopefully, having to enter it more often now will help you to keep it in memory, even with "advancing years". ;)

You might be interested in the 1Password Emergency Kit which some of our users created a while ago. It is a PDF file you can use to write down important information like your master password, in case you forget it. If you use that, you would of course want to keep it somewhere very safe, like a bank safe deposit box.

Hopefully this helps, but please let us know if you need anything else. Thanks! :)

Jasperhound

You might be interested in the 1Password Emergency Kit which some of our users created a while ago.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll certainly have a look. As I used it before 1P arrived, I still use PasswordWallet with its data file hidden in an encrypted vault. Far from perfect, I know, but my on-line bank doesn't offer physical vaults.

Lars

Hi @Jasperhound!

The 1Password Emergency Kit that @Drew_AG mentioned is a physical data-sheet that you can print to hard copy (or PDF) that allows you to keep your 1Password login data available off-line, in case you forget anything. It's a great resource created by a 1Password user (not by us), and we recommend its use. Let us know how that works for you, or if you have any questions or issues. Cheers!