Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature • Hacker News Board

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by cmbailey » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 12:12 PM UTC

yepguy wrote: post #41

itake wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using Bitwarden for over a year now and there are still tons of UX bugs that annoy me. In Firefox extension: 1. There is no memory. If you close the window, to copy the password, you have to re-search for the account to find the username. 2. If you open up bitwarden before the page is loaded, it says it can't find the password box to fill in. This is probably an extension limitation, but still annoying. i…

Maybe you can use the sidebar instead of the toolbar button if you're annoyed by the 'no memory' issue.

Opt-Shift-Y on MacOS

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by bronco21016 » Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 2:27 AM UTC

xref wrote: post #145

bronco21016 wrote: post #117

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You can’t unshare them from the organization. Say you create an entry for Bank of America. You then later share that entry with the “Family” organization. That entry now forever lives with that organization unless you delete it and then make a new entry again in your personal vault. A more user friendly approach would be for the entry’s ownership to always remain with the original creator and simply share that entry…

Yeah I understand, I’m just saying in this case that feature would allow you to lock out your spouse effectively

Which was exactly what my spouse did to me by having access to the password and then changing it with the utility company and not updating it in the password manager.

I think as another commenter said we’re complaining about the wrong piece of the flow. Important accounts like utilities should have a mechanism where as many users as necessary are tied to an address. In many households it will be one user but in some it might need to be 2, or in the case of roommates 2+.

We can have multiple users tied to our mobile phone service provider so why not the gas or electric?

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by ajh13 » Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 11:06 AM UTC

opheliate wrote: post #19

Barrin92 wrote: post #18

Bitwarden is just fantastic. It's open source, the interface is clean, works fine on all platforms for me and pretty much everything is free. If the devs browse here, thanks for making it.

Just want to echo this. I've been using Bitwarden for about a year now, and a few months ago, my mum (not technologically literate) had her email hacked. Getting her set up with Bitwarden & teaching her how to use it was one of the easiest experiences I've had when introducing her to new software. Really well designed.

I recently set this up with my mom and dad too, and they have been enjoying the relief of only having to memorize one password. It is also much more secure since then their previous methods of reusing passwords.

Re: Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature

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Post by tweetle_beetle » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

dspillett wrote: post #131

tweetle_beetle wrote: post #128

My dad set me up with the equivalent feature to this on Dashlane. But it involved downloading their desktop app, which has all the usual anti-user behaviour - automatically adding to startup list, minimising to taskbar on quit, self updating without request, etc. So I ended up uninstalling it. I hope that I get an email notification, or I find out through other offline means, if the feature ever gets activated. I hat…

> Dashlane ... their desktop app, which has all the usual anti-user behaviour They are going "web first" and eventually deprecating the desktop app, so you are going to need to reengineer that solution at oe point soon.

Appreciate the tip-off