Searching through passwords

seanrwcrawford

I used to use the same password on some sites before 1Password, recently I found out that one of my accounts was compromised. I'd like to have a way to search through my 250 or so logins to see which sites use the old password so that I can change it. Is this possible?

DBrown

Welcome to the forum, Sean!



I don't know of a way to do that.



Instead, you might try selecting the Logins vault, clicking on the Password column to sort your Login items by password strength, finding the site you know has that password, and then checking all the Logins that have the same value in the Password column (where the green, yellow, and red indicates password strength).



I hope that helps.

Stefan von Dutch

This isn't possible (yet) but I have added it to my list of things to do.

DBrown

Stefan, I assume you mean it isn't yet possible to search for text in passwords (not that it isn't possible to use the workaround I suggested).

Stefan von Dutch

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Stefan, I assume you mean it isn't yet possible to search for text in passwords (not that it isn't possible to use the workaround I suggested).

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Correct

seanrwcrawford

Thanks for the feedback guys. And thanks Stefan, would be great to have that functionality in the future.

Stefan von Dutch

I have changed "include notes fields in search" into "include notes and passwords in search". When clicked, 1Password will search though your passwords in addition to searching though your notes. To be included with some future build.

dmbfan36_23

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I have changed "include notes fields in search" into "include notes and passwords in search". When clicked, 1Password will search though your passwords in addition to searching though your notes. To be included with some future build.

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Stefan - I see that this has made its way into the builds - thanks! Question: would it be possible to add a character to do exact matches only? That way you can find all examples of "123" and exclude "123a", "123b", etc. Perhaps just that act of putting things in quotes would be enough?



"123" only returns 123



123 returns 123, 123a, 123b, etc.

DBrown

So, you're looking for something analogous to a "Whole words only" option?



If so, I think an option would be better for a couple of reasons:

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[*]Quotation marks are typically used to delimit literal strings in cases where tokens within the string might have syntactical meaning. (For example, [i]this and that[/i] might return everything that contains [i]this[/i] and everything that contains [i]that[/i], but [i]"this and that"[/i] would return everything that contains that exact string.)



[*]Quotation marks might actually be something you'd want to search for.

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