Local Vault

Hi ljohnston:

Thanks for your feedback here including your use case. Additionally, as my colleague Peter mentioned above, you, or an appropriate decision maker if necessary, can email us at business@1password.com with a link to this discussion and our business team would be happy to connect!

Jack

I would like to add another vote for local vaults, and for the same reason cited by ljohnston, @benwade and others. I currently use 1Password 7 with a family subscription for my personal stuff, and with a local vault for my work-related credentials, since my employer has strict policies about this. With 1P7 this is easy, but makes it impossible for me to migrate to 1P8. I hope you can reconsider the possibility of adding support for local vaults in a future version of 1P.

Hi @zzzamboni:

Thanks for your input here. As I mentioned above, you (or an appropriate decision maker at your organization if necessary) can email us at business@1password.com and our business team would be happy to chat about this!

Jack

I'm a bit confused about the use of 'standalone' and 'local' and the references to Dave's post. I understand the point of making everyone use subscriptions and I've had one for ages, but why does that mean we can't have a local vault?

Anyway, I'd like to add a vote for keeping local vaults. I'm using the online version of 1password privately, but my job requires me to save my passwords offline. If I can't use local vaults, I'd have to use another service.

I'm sorry for the confusion caused. In some ways we've adopted the terminology folks have been using in order to facilitate the communication. "Local" isn't a word that I would choose to use in reference to standalone vaults, as it implies that the data 1Password is working with when using a membership isn't on your device. This is incorrect. 1Password always works from a local database, which is then synced with the server when you're online. It also implies that the data doesn't leave the device, which is also often incorrect, as folks more often than not used iCloud or Dropbox to sync their standalone vaults to their other devices.

Vaults that are exclusively "local," and don't sync anywhere, are not part of our business model at this time. We have lots of experience with that, and after evaluating all of the pros and cons have decided that moving forward it isn't something we're going to support. There is still consideration for self-hosting the 1Password service, which may allow for most/all of the benefits of 1Password.com, while still meeting the demand for on-prem. There is a survey available on that subject here.

Ben

I am really sad to hear that the 1 password team is dropping the support for the local vault sync in version 8. I have been using 1Password for 12 years now and was always pleased with it and I have recommended to colleagues friends and family. But if the 1 password team won't reconsider their decision I will stick with version 7 for now and will look for alternatives. If I am forced into a cloud solution I can use apples free keychain as well.

Thanks for being with us for so many years @blaukraut. Stay safe out there, and if you decide to give us another shot, we'll be here. :smile:

@blaukraut Check out Enpass. It supports local vaults that you can then choose to sync either via a cloud service (iCloud, Dropbox, etc.), not sync at all, or sync via your local WiFi network b/w your devices. I.e., all the ways you used to be able to store and sync your 1Password vault until AgileBits got greedy.

Agree with @blaukraut. My org is in the process of spec'ing a password manager rollout (we've got over 40k employees). My understanding is 1Password was a top candidate, but with this 1P8 announcement, we'd be unable to meet existing contractual agreements... Such a bummer/pain.

Short version: we've removed 1P8 from the candidates list entirely.

I'm sorry to hear this, hotoutside! As always, I'd be happy to connect you with our specialist team if someone at your organization would like to discuss our security model, how things work, and why large orgs with high security requirements are finding we present the strongest option.