Skip Password for One Step Update with Direct Connect accounts

Ray

I have two Direct Connect accounts (Fidelity Investments). The rest are Express Web Connect. Direct Connect accounts require website passwords to be stored in Quicken. I use the Password Vault for them. When I start One Step Update, "Enter Vault Password" pops up, requiring the password, which I find very annoying.

It's unnecessary. Quicken could skip the pop-up, as it does with Express Web Connect and immediately start the update. If I need to access or edit the vault or passwords, I can use the current Tools > Password Vault access that requires the Vault Password.

Ray

Doesn't anyone else find this annoying?

One Step Update should be "one step." As my datafiles are at home, I don't use passwords to open them. Seems to me that Quicken could allow me to not require a 6-digit password to my vault too. Even if someone were to open the vault, they can't see the passwords. They can change them. OSU will then fail but the new password won't let them into my institution. What's the security concern?

Frank Tonis

Yes, VERY annoying. It is a real process to update accounts on my wife's computer in Quicken Windows. My other computer is an iMac. All I do is click on the little circle in Quicken for Mac at the top and BAM all accounts are updated quickly. What is the deal with Windows?

Chris_QPW

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20492107#Comment_20492107

Well your problem is going to be solved shortly. With Fidelity switching to Express Web Connect +.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20505054#Comment_20505054

Quicken Mac uses the Macs keychain that has already verified the user, whereas Quicken Windows is doing it all, and as such needs to verify the user, to open the encrypted data(in fact it is the password that is the key to open the password vault, and only you have that). And the reason Express Web Connect doesn’t do this is because the username and password is stored in Quicken.

In the cause of Express Web Connect the username and password are stored on Intuit’s server.

In the cause of Express Web Connect + the username and password isn’t used at all. Intuit and the financial institution exchange rotating security tokens.