accountbad.blogg.se - Bitwarden desktop app

I’m just a low profile dude that wants to protect my low profile accounts. Personally, I’m fine with a 4 or 6 digit PIN + Yubikey.

I wish Bitwarden would recognize that not all of us have the same risk profile and/or have different degrees of risk tolerance. I’m guessing I’m blissfully unaware of the complexities of implementing this but this is such an obvious QOL/usability improvement. The machinery should be in place since as I understand biometric unlock from desktop browsers, recently implemented, relies on communication between the browser extensions and the desktop app.īy the way I can’t use biometric unlock: my company pc disables Windows Hello by policy, and my home pc does not have a fingerprint scanner or a supported webcam (no infrared and depth capabilities).

Opening any browser while the desktop app is unlocked should show the Bitwarden extension as already unlocked.

Locking any (manually or via timeout, but not by closing the browser) should lock all.

It would be a way nicer experience if all those installations on the same pc could maintain a single unlock session.

On the pc I am writing from, I have Bitwarden installed four times:Īll four installations act independently as far as locking/unlocking goes, so even if I set the autolock timeout to 4 hours on all of those, I quite frequently have to retype the password because I close and switch browsers. Or even better, monitor the computer for idle and as long as it is not idle, keep extending the timeout. Bitwarden should be able to tell that since the last time it was unlocked, another login or form has been filled since and then reset the timeout to the last time of Bitwarden use. If the Bitwarden desktop app is running anyway in the background (which is optional), it could make itself useful by holding the timeout open, while a browser is closed and reopened (assuming within the time specified).įurther, if a login is launched from the Bitwarden desktop app, it is then neccesary to enter the PIN a second time, once to open the Bitwarden desktop app and then again to unlock the browser extension, even if all that was done in 30 seconds.Īnd the timeout should not blindly expire once the time is met. As it is now, even if the vault timeout is set to 1 hour and it was just unlocked a minute ago, once the browser window is closed, then opened again a few seconds after, Bitwarden has already locked. If the Bitwarden desktop app is installed and running in the background, it should be able to communicate with a Firefox (or other) browser extension, so that it is not necessary to unlock the vault after each time the browser is closed.