Licensing options, technical feasibility of company-wide shared password database

Harry Warrior

Is it possible to release an enterprise version of your product which allows multiple people in a company to share a common password database? Imagine the use case of storing their 'clients' passwords to a third party service. This could be a new revenue stream for you.



Sharing could be over dropbox OR some shared network storage.



Does it work already out of the box ? Is it just a licensing issue?



Thanks



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Harry

MikeT

Hi Harry,



You can certainly use 1Password to sync the same database across the entire company with Dropbox. We have business licenses with multi-seats support at [url="https://agilewebsolutions.com/store/business"]our business store[/url]. Each user will use the same business license and can use their own Dropbox account to share the same 1Password folder with everybody in the company.



This type of set up can only be used with one data file at a time. What this mean is that each user can only use the company's 1Password data file, they can't have their own subset of passwords or use their own private data file. Basically, a "one for all" setup.



1Password, at this moment, isn't designed to handle multiple data files within the same app at the same time, It is only designed to handle one data file by one person. As you mentioned, we'd need to create an enterprise version of 1Password from the ground up to support this enterprise capability and yes, it is certainly possible. This is something we're interested in but as far as to when it'll happen, we do not have any timeframe on this.



Thank you for sharing your suggestions about the enterprise version, I'm glad that you're interested in having an enterprise version of 1Password.



If you have more questions, please let us know here or you can contact us at support@agilewebsolutions.com.

Harry Warrior

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can use their own Dropbox account to share the same 1Password folder with everybody in the company.

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does this also mean they also have to share the 'root' of their dropbox folder? Meaning the drobox account also has to be company wide?

Or rather, can the 1password use a subfolder?

MikeT

Hi Harry,



They can place the 1Password data file in any subfolder in the Dropbox folder, that specific subfolder can then be shared with the company. When a user opens that 1Password data file in the subfolder, 1Password will automatically open it, configure itself to use that data file and each user can use their own Dropbox account to sync the 1Password database to their iOS, Android or Windows 7 Phone devices if they want.

gnicholas

Mike, this would be a very useful feature.



Just an idea, rather than having a single file it might be good to have multiple 1PW files.



Imagine a 1PW user has 2 files accessible, 1 file that is all their personal passwords and only accessible to them, and another file a company wide file.

When 1PW prompts for a pw, if there are mulitple files available, you could just select the file and then enter the master password for that file.



This wouldn't change the user interface for 1PW much at all, and the Dropbox sharing of files would make it possible to securely share.

If a company needed to do more fine-grained role based security, it could create a file for each role and share the file with the people using that role.



If everyone could update a shared file then conflicted copies would arise in Dropbox. So perhaps you would need to limit the addition of new passwords to shared files to the admin for that file.



Looking forward to it in the next release <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

khad

Thanks for the feedback, Glenn! <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':-)' />



We think you will love the solution we have planned in a future version. I don't have a time frame for a specific release, but this is definitely on our radar!



Cheers,

gnicholas

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...We think you will love the solution we have planned in a future version. I don't have a time frame for a specific release, but this is definitely on our radar!

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Excellent. This is the only significant feature that LastPass has that 1P doesn't.

gnicholas

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We think you will love the solution we have planned in a future version. I don't have a time frame for a specific release, but this is definitely on our radar!

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Any further news on the shared-password feature?

khad

We don't pre-announce features, but as soon as something is ready, we will definitely post on [url="http://blog.agilebits.com/"]our blog[/url], in these forums, and likely send out a [url="http://agilebits.com/company/newsletter"]newsletter[/url]. It is a big feature with many requests, so you can be sure there will be some fanfare. <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':-)' />



Thanks for your continued interest!

Ben

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We don't pre-announce features, but as soon as something is ready, we will definitely post on [url="http://blog.agilebits.com/"]our blog[/url], in these forums, and likely send out a [url="http://agilebits.com/company/newsletter"]newsletter[/url]. It is a big feature with many requests, so you can be sure there will be some fanfare. <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/skype_smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':-)' />



Thanks for your continued interest!

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If you were going to attempt this on a large scale ("enterprise" to me means more than 500 people, which I would definitely consider large scale), you may want to look into Dropbox for Teams. https://www.dropbox.com/teams

It is intended for business use, has more storage space than the free version, and when people within your team share files with each other it doesn't count against each individual's storage space as the free edition does. Instead it treats it as if there were only a single copy of the file, as far as storage space is concerned.



If you're seriously considering such a setup drop us an email at support@agilebits.com. We'd be happy to work with you on it (the licensing and technical aspect). I'd be really interested to hear how it goes.

Ben

Just a very small update on this: we're still definitely interested in doing something more for the business/enterprise community and are investigating the best way to move forward. As I Khad mentioned above, keep an eye on the blog (and here) for any further announcements.



Thanks