Deprecate the password vault password

lagunajim

The password is unnecessary on the password vault.

Boatnmaniac

I disagree. One might not consider it to be necessary if one also has set up the optional data file PW but not everyone uses the optional data file PW.

Also, not everyone closes Quicken after they have updated/reviewed the data file. Some people just keep the data file open for days and weeks at a time.

I do believe that Quicken probably needs (for legal and liability reasons) to have some sort of mandatory PW protection for OSU PWs, whether with a PW Vault or with a mandatory data file PW. Since not everyone regularly closes Quicken and not everyone opts to use a data file PW, it seems to me to be logical to make a PW mandatory for the PW Vault.

As a side note: PW Vault is only needed for accounts that are set up to download via Direct Connect. Express Web Connect and Express Web Connect+ connected accounts do not need to be in PW Vault because the account PW (for EWC) and the security token (for EWC+) are saved on the aggregator's (Intuit's) server. So, if your PW Vault includes accounts set up with EWC and/or EWC+, you can delete those accounts from PW Vault. Then if you have no DC accounts, you will not be prompted to enter a PW for PW Vault….or better, yet, you can simply delete the PW Vault.

Chris_QPW

I totally agree with @Boatnmaniac it needs a password, and basically is useless without it. The Password Vault is and encrypted store, it needs some kind of "key/password" just to function. That key "might" be something like Windows Hello as some have suggested, but it has to be something.

And on the idea that "something" should be the Quicken data file password, well first off like @Boatnmaniac also pointed out, not everyone uses that, which means that both are still required. And as for trying to use the Quicken data file password for the password for the Password Vault has been tried in the past and it failed.