1Password is the service we use to store and manage credentials, including user identification (userid or username), passwords, passkeys, SSH private/public key pairs, and much, much more.
This document refers to a relatively small subset of the information we keep in 1Password. You likely have all sorts of information in your 1Password vault that is not required by anything described in this documentation. A particular example is the credentials you use to access your banking accounts. Another great reason to protect access to 1Password very carefully.
This documentation refers to a relatively small subset of the information we store in 1Password. You likely have all sorts of information in your 1Password vault that is not required by anything described here. One example of note is the credentials you use to access your banking accounts. The key point is this: protect access to 1Password very carefully.
Having established that 1Password holds all1 the keys to our kingdom, so to speak, t is, therefore, hands down, the very most important service we use. If you can’t access your 1Password account, you can’t do much of anything else.
The credentials to access 1Password are kept in 1Password. It seems silly to do that, right? After all, how can you access your 1Password credentials if you don’t know them? Great question. Don’t fret; there are two ways you can save your bacon.
First, our 1Password account is a family account that allows multiple users, each with their own credentials, to access their own vault(s) and any vault to which they have been granted access. The credentials you use to access 1Password are stored in your vault, and both Tim and Renee have access to each other’s vault.2 As such, either can retrieve the others’ credentials.
In the unlikely event that both Tim and Renee somehow manage to bugger up their 1Password user credentials, either of us can recover them using the information in the 1Password Emergency Kit, a one page document that has the information to get back in. If that document is lost or damaged, in this case, we are, essentially, screwed.
Make sure that the document is protected, that is, locked in the safe. Anyone who has that document can gain access to our 1Password account. If that document is lost or damaged, immediately generated a new one, which can be accomplished vis the 1Password web application. This assumes, of course, that you have you personal 1Password access credentials. If not… refer back to the previous paragraph; the part about being screwed.