bitwarden password manager couple simple questions

[lan101]

I have a small office wanting to use bitwarden as a password manager. I decided to test it out myself for a little bit to make sure it works for what they want.

I guess the main thing is on an already made account on a web site. Is there anyway to change the password to a website within the bitwarden vault? All I see is you can use the password generator to make one up, but you still have to copy/paste it into whatever site you are changing it.

I guess they believe it'd be nice to change passwords to all sites from one location and that doesn't seem possible unless there's something I'm missing. It seems to be a great way to keep all your current passwords together though. They are constantly having to change passwords to highly secure sites every 90-180 days.

Any insight as to whether or not I'm going about this right would be appreciated. Thank you.

I went through I believe most if not all the FAQ and help on their site too which really helped.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Yes, you just click on the field and edit it. Yes, there's a generate button but the field that holds the password is a text box, if you want to change it you simply click on it, type in new stuff, and save it.

Now, if that isn't working I suggest you find the edit button, because the default view of a password is read only. If they have a central vault owned by a company, and they've invited you and you can't edit, that may mean they set you as read only when they invited you... that's a thing too.

My only complaint about bitwarden is there's no password history... someone can screw up a record and you have no undo!

 

[lan101]

Yeah I found the edit button and see where you can generate a new password etc. But to actually change it we'll just use gmail as an example.

To change a gmail password they still need to do that how they always do it by logging into gmail, but you can use the password generator to copy/paste into it and save it in the vault to make it easier to come up with the passwords. Is that correct? Hopefully I'm making sense lol late night typing here. Thanks for your reply.

Also I see how the browser plugin pops up do you want to save this password etc. when you login to sites. I kinda of tested this out on an old yahoo account of mine but the old password still works so that's why I'm thinking the passwords still gotta be changed through the actual sites not bitwarden. Although bitwarden certainly makes it a lot easier to manage it.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Oh yes, you have to use whatever mechanism the service provides to change the password with the service. The only thing automated is the entry of the credentials. Password managers store credentials, not actually enforce their use.

 

[lan101]

Got it. That's what I figured. Thanks for the input. First time trying out any password manager lol.

 

[Sky-Knight]

You picked a great one, open source, can be self hosted, easy backups and restores... all of that lends itself to keeping the price in the realm of something sane. Something other managers don't have!

 

[hjelpio]

$2.99 a month is doable for most people. I've used 1Password for years and couldn't live without it.