How to Share Account Access Without Risk or Verification Checks

Handling multiple accounts is a must for online marketers, but doing so without raising alarms or getting banned can be a challenge. Whether you’re managing social media accounts, e-commerce platforms, or multiple online personas, the key to success lies in securely sharing access without compromising account safety.

Let’s look into the most common methods of sharing account access and discover why Multilogin offers the best solution for marketers and businesses.

How to Securely Share Accounts Across Teams

As teams grow, sharing access to accounts becomes necessary. For example, if you have a team managing social media for multiple brands, giving each team member direct access to the accounts can be risky.

Passwords can be lost, misused, or leaked, leading to security vulnerabilities. With Multilogin’s session sharing, this problem is solved by allowing team members to log into accounts using encrypted session cookies, without the need to know the actual passwords.

Imagine you’re working with a remote team that manages Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts for several clients. Instead of sharing passwords or compromising security with password manager tools, you can use Multilogin to share session cookies. These cookies are encrypted, ensuring that the accounts remain secure while allowing your team to access them as needed.

Offline Sharing: Quick But Risky

Offline sharing, the simplest form of sharing account access, involves giving someone a plain-text password to log into your account from their device. This approach is fast but comes with significant security risks.

When you share passwords this way, you expose yourself to several threats:

• Loss of Control: The moment you hand over your password, you lose control over your account. The person could misuse the access, and if they get compromised, your account is at risk too.
• Security Checks: Major platforms like Facebook or PayPal perform strict security checks based on login location and device. If your account is accessed from an unfamiliar location or device, it might trigger security warnings, leading to time-consuming verifications or even account suspension.

For anyone serious about safeguarding their accounts, offline sharing is neither secure nor efficient.

Online Sharing: A Step Up, But Still Vulnerable

Sharing passwords using tools like LastPass or Dashlane is considered online sharing. It’s a more secure option than offline sharing since passwords aren’t sent via insecure channels. However, this method is still not foolproof:

• Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: If either party’s device is compromised, an attacker could intercept the shared password, gaining access to the account.
• Security Flags: Even though the person using the shared password isn’t typing it in, platforms like Twitter or Instagram can detect unusual login behaviors, potentially leading to more security checks or outright bans.

While online sharing improves password security, it’s not entirely reliable, especially when you’re managing multiple accounts for marketing purposes. Fortunately, there’s a safer solution: session sharing.

Session Sharing with Multilogin: The Ultimate Solution

Multilogin offers a powerful feature called session sharing, which eliminates the need to share passwords entirely. Instead of sending passwords, you share access through an active browser session. Here’s how it works:

1. Passwords Stay Safe: You never have to share the actual password. Instead, Multilogin transfers the session cookie, which contains the session ID of an active login. This allows the other person to access the account without knowing the password, and they can’t change it either.
2. Encrypted Cookie Transfers: Session cookies are transferred securely using asymmetric encryption, meaning that only the intended recipient can decrypt and use the cookie. Even if a hacker intercepts the data, they can’t use it to gain unauthorized access.
3. No Security Checks: When you share a session using Multilogin, all the browser fingerprint data matches that of the original session. This prevents websites from detecting anything unusual, and security checks are less likely to be triggered.

With Multilogin’s session sharing, you can grant access to multiple accounts safely and without compromising security, making it the ideal tool for marketers and businesses managing multiple online identities.

Managing IP-Dependent Data

When accessing accounts from different locations, platforms often check IP addresses and other related data, like geolocation and time zones. These differences can flag unusual behavior and trigger account suspensions. Check out this helpful post for more valuable insights on choosing the best proxy for your project.

Multilogin addresses this with ease:

• Use Proxies: With Multilogin, you can assign different proxies to each browser profile, ensuring that the IP address and geolocation match the original session. This keeps IP-dependent data consistent and prevents unwanted security checks.

Handling Hardware Fingerprints

This is where things get tricky. It’s not just your IP address that websites scrutinize. They also examine your hardware fingerprints, like canvas and AudioContext. You’ve probably guessed it right – these fingerprints need to match for all users accessing the session.

Multilogin helps you keep these fingerprints consistent across different users or devices by:

• Using identical virtual machines (VMs) or virtual private servers (VPSs).
• Ensuring identical hardware, drivers, and operating systems for consistency.
• Leveraging Mac devices, which often share similar hardware configurations.

With these techniques, you can ensure that even your hardware fingerprints match, avoiding detection and account flags.