Newbie Question

grandpamike

What I would like to know is this, I use different passwords for all of my logins, do I need to change all of them individually before using generated passwords from the program ? Say, I want to generate a strong password from the program on a banking site, do I just go to the site, go to the change password and then generate one from 1Pass ?

khad

If you are already using different passwords for every sie, you are already off to a great start. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />



If you would like to change a password on a site to a generated password, it is probably easiest to do so on [url="http://forum.agilebits.com/index.php?/topic/11439-imac-ipad-iphone/page__view__findpost__p__65092"]your Mac[/url].



Here is the guide for changing a password using the 1Password browser extension for Mac:



http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/change_password.html



The short version is that you need to make both 1Password [b]and[/b] the website aware of the change. Think of it like changing your lock and giving your roommate a copy of the new key. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />



On iOS the process is not as smooth since there is not a way to generate a password in 1Password's built-in browser on iOS at this time. However, please let me know if you didn't end up installing 1Password on your iMac. I can give specific instructions for iOS as well.

grandpamike

[quote name='khad' timestamp='1356635789' post='66367']

If you are already using different passwords for every sie, you are already off to a great start. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />



If you would like to change a password on a site to a generated password, it is probably easiest to do so on [url="http://forum.agilebits.com/index.php?/topic/11439-imac-ipad-iphone/page__view__findpost__p__65092"]your Mac[/url].



Here is the guide for changing a password using the 1Password browser extension for Mac:



[url="http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/change_password.html"]http://help.agilebit...e_password.html[/url]



The short version is that you need to make both 1Password [b]and[/b] the website aware of the change. Think of it like changing your lock and giving your roommate a copy of the new key. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />



On iOS the process is not as smooth since there is not a way to generate a password in 1Password's built-in browser on iOS at this time. However, please let me know if you didn't end up installing 1Password on your iMac. I can give specific instructions for iOS as well.

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I will not be using 1Password for my Mac yet, but will be using it for my iPad/Iphone, so instructions for IOS would be preferrable.

khad

The way I did it just last night was to create a new Login item for the site with a generated password. That way I had access to both the old/existing password and new/generated password. I visited the site and logged in with the "old" Login item and then changed the password to the one I had generated.



Once I confirmed that everything was working well by logging out of the site and logging in with the new Login item, I deleted the old Login item. Just to be safe you might want to hang on to the old Login item for a little while. <img src='http://forum.agilebits.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />