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As an employee I would definitely not like to mix my personal things in my work password manager :) However for those who are so inclined I can see the value.

by _abox 5y ago

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
No, that was the point. I want accounts for personal that I can access or reset, and I want a work account I can. Lastpass does this and allows you to link them for your visibility, not mine. So users get a single log in the morning or whatever and they can do whatever they like. It’s a convenience that helps our less security minded users still have good habits.
- bananadonkey 5y ago
  2 of my colleagues lost their personal accounts (which they had linked to the corpo account) when they disabled/deleted the trial corpo account. They were the only 2 of us who were trialling the linked account approach so I cannot say what the chance of losing your personal account is/was under this scenario. This was a couple of years ago but understandably prompted a mass migration way from LastPass.
  - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    The way it’s worked ever since I’ve seen is the account is entirely separate. It’s just linked in. But they would have lost the features until they paid the normal rate themselves.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  I understand, we've also been talking to LastPass in the past and they offered us something like this (not sure if it's a similar deal). Basically giving employees full access to the paid features personally as well. But a single login is something I wouldn't even want. If my corporate account got blocked for some reason (e.g. the company folding), would that also lock the personal one? I don't know if we asked them this question as I wasn't directly involved in the discussion. In the end the whole deal was shelved anyway. For me it's just a matter of account hygiene. And for personal stuff I prefer to host my password manager myself anyway. I was into mixing work/private in the past but with the increasing sophistication of attackers I avoid it now. I can see the benefit though, promoting the use of a password manager to users who might not have thought of this in their personal life. I know many people who have never even heard of the phenomenon and still use the same password everywhere. I wonder what's in it for LastPass though.

As an employee I would definitely not like to mix my personal things in my work password manager :) However for those who are so inclined I can see the value.

by _abox 5y ago

As an employee I would definitely not like to mix my personal things in my work password manager :) However for those who are so inclined I can see the value.

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago

No, that was the point. I want accounts for personal that I can access or reset, and I want a work account I can. Lastpass does this and allows you to link them for your visibility, not mine. So users get a single log in the morning or whatever and they can do whatever they like. It’s a convenience that helps our less security minded users still have good habits.

bananadonkey 5y ago
2 of my colleagues lost their personal accounts (which they had linked to the corpo account) when they disabled/deleted the trial corpo account. They were the only 2 of us who were trialling the linked account approach so I cannot say what the chance of losing your personal account is/was under this scenario. This was a couple of years ago but understandably prompted a mass migration way from LastPass.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  The way it’s worked ever since I’ve seen is the account is entirely separate. It’s just linked in. But they would have lost the features until they paid the normal rate themselves.
GekkePrutser 5y ago
I understand, we've also been talking to LastPass in the past and they offered us something like this (not sure if it's a similar deal). Basically giving employees full access to the paid features personally as well. But a single login is something I wouldn't even want. If my corporate account got blocked for some reason (e.g. the company folding), would that also lock the personal one? I don't know if we asked them this question as I wasn't directly involved in the discussion. In the end the whole deal was shelved anyway. For me it's just a matter of account hygiene. And for personal stuff I prefer to host my password manager myself anyway. I was into mixing work/private in the past but with the increasing sophistication of attackers I avoid it now. I can see the benefit though, promoting the use of a password manager to users who might not have thought of this in their personal life. I know many people who have never even heard of the phenomenon and still use the same password everywhere. I wonder what's in it for LastPass though.