Separate profiles, private and shared things, and how to require two people to agree.
Everyone gets their own passphrase and their own private space. What they can see beyond that is up to you. There is no practical limit on how many people you add — most families use two or three.
You unlock the vault and create their profile. They type their own passphrase, and you should look away while they do. You are giving them a door, not a key you also hold — you will never know their passphrase, and that is deliberate.
Any password, note or document can be shared with one person or everyone, and taken back later. There are two levels, and the difference matters.
| Level | What they can do | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Can see | Knows it exists, sees the name and notes, cannot reveal the secret | A teenager who needs to know the account exists |
| Can use | Can have the device type it, but never sees the characters | The streaming password everyone uses |
| Can reveal | Full access to the secret itself | A spouse and the household accounts |
Some things should not rest on one person. Mark an item as needing two approvals and it stays shut until a second adult also presses the button.
This is the same machinery that protects your recovery in Chapter 06. Requiring two people protects against one person acting alone. It also means that if the two of you fall out, or one is simply unreachable, that item stays shut. Use it for things that genuinely warrant it, not for everything.
Removing a person takes their access away immediately and re-locks everything they could reach, so their old passphrase opens nothing. What they already saw and remembered, they still know — no device can fix that.
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