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by YetAnotherNick 1084 days ago
Am I the only one who has 10 electronic device in my house shared by 4 members and the accounts are shared in all kind of combinations among family members and devices.

I want to share passwords of some sites and not share for all sites. If I share a password, I don't want to bugged whenever they try to log in.
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jackson1442 1084 days ago
If you use a password manager such as 1Password (I’m sure many others support this/will support this as well), you can save the passkeys in there and allow shared access.

Most sites also support some kind of fallback method, like magic link or a password.

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YetAnotherNick 1084 days ago
How will this work in all the devices? My smart TV likely doesn't support, console doesn't support it etc. Basically my point is no matter how organised I am, there will be cases where passwords are the only option.
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jackson1442 1080 days ago
Typically for devices like this there are off-device authentication options such as “enter the code ABCD on aka.ms/xba” or you can always fallback to magic link which still doesn’t require storing a password. Passwords won’t be going anywhere anytime soon, but it’s good to have other options in the works.
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wkat4242 1084 days ago
It sounds like you're doing it wrong though :) Most devices these days support multi-account. Even Oculus.
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