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Former Member
2 years ago1Password Access after Death, Legacy Contacts
I am not planning to die anytime soon, but sometimes things happen.
Beyond securing my 1Password details in an Escrow account, or with a lawyer, or in a bank lockbox, does 1Password offer any mean...
OlavN
7 months agoNew Contributor
Hi, looks like a printed paper is the best solution 1password has for emergency access in case of family member's health makes stops them from accessing their personal vaults:
https://1password.community/discussion/136165/how-to-gain-access-to-parents-private-vault-when-they-pass
I had a Lastpass family account, but switched to 1password families as I found it safer and tidier.
But in 1password I can't find a similar solution to what Lastpass had:
Assign emergency access to a member while configuring number of days for denial. Then if the assigned member, using the password management web pages, requests access to my account, I get an email with a link for denying access within the mentioned number of days.
I would agree that some of the web management features in Lastpass were a security risk, maybe this one as well. But it can be done right.
And I simply don't find 1password's (lacking really) solution good enough for this core need of a family password management solution.
While you generally won't distrust family members, it's not ok for any part to have too much access. In case of a breach, what will other's think?
I would find it ok to manually share a print of my Secret Key to a family member.
But I can't see any good option to automated sharing of my 1password username and password after a denial period.
Thanks for listening.
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