Q before buying - ability to share sites/passwords between groups

kabadkar

Hello,



I apologize in advance if this question has been asked and answered. I did look in the forum, FAQ and user help, and I didn't clearly see an answer. If there is a post here, please point me to it.



I need to be able to share certain website passwords between different family members as groups of users.

* Group 1: Me and my wife

* Group 2: Me, my wife and children

* Group 3: Only me and no one else.



What I need is for each group access to ONLY the sites/passwords in that group and not have ANY access to the sites/passwords that are not in their group. For example:



Credit card sites would be in group 1 and 3

Educational websites for children would be in all three groups

Technical websites (which only I will access) will be in Group 3.



It appears this may be possible with a family license and have each person in the family have a login with a different password. If someone could let me know if this is possible, I'd appreciate it.



Thanks,



Ashwin

khad

Welcome to the forums, Ashwin! Thanks for taking the time to contact us. This question has been answered before, but it is a very good one. I am happy to answer it again. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />



The concept of sharing and multiple data files within 1Password has been suggested a number of times and it's certainly a very interesting and useful idea! We are considering this for the future, but it is quite a substantial change to how 1Password works right now which means a lot of time and testing is required to add this feature.



So with that said, I really can't make any promises on a time frame for when we may be able to bring this to 1Password, but that doesn't mean we won't. We've always believed in trying to be as honest and realistic with our users as possible rather than making lots of empty promises.



I'm sorry I can't give you a more positive answer right now, but thank you so much for letting us know that you would find this useful. We do take the number of users who request a feature into consideration when we decide on our feature lists.



In the meantime, importing and exporting 1Password Interchange Files is a great way to transfer information between different installations of 1Password (File > Export). It is not automated, but for my purposes it works well since I am not constantly changing the passwords I share with others. This way each use can have private 1Password data and import only the items they need from the rest of the team.



(Please be aware that the 1PIF information is not encrypted and should be handled with care while in transit and securely deleted once the information is safely imported into an encrypted 1Password data file.)



If we can be of further assistance, please let us know. We are always here to help!