Why YSK: Because if you are like most people, you also store your email’s password in your Bitwarden Vault and not bother remembering it, causing you to potentially get locked out (since you wouldn’t be able to log in to your email to get the verification code, because your email’s password is in the vault itself 👀)

(Imagine leaving your key in your house, lol)

Source: https://bitwarden.com/help/new-device-verification/

Excerpt:

To keep your account safe and secure, in February 2025, Bitwarden will require additional verification for users who do not use two-step login. After entering your Bitwarden master password, you will be prompted to enter a one-time verification code sent to your account email to complete the login process when logging in from a device you have not logged in to previously. For example, if you are logging in to a mobile app or a browser extension that you have used before, you will not receive this prompt.

Good thing I noticed, otherwise I might’ve had a bad time next month 😖

Edit: Updated title to clarify that people who have 2FA are not affected.

  • PikaEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve never used bit warden, but I migrated from Nordpass to keepass, I currently use a private key for my second form of Authentication so even if my vault is stolen it can’t be decrypted cuz they would need the private key along with it

    It’s a stupid simple setup, because I use syncthing to synchronize my Vault across all systems, and I have syncthing set up that way it keeps three or four versions of the Vault active at a time so if I somehow managed to corrupt The Vault I can just use an older version, this way I only have one account that I’m locked out of instead of all accounts.

    As for 2fa, yeah I do the same thing as the other guy my 2fa is stored in my vault. I used to use authy for everything, then they decided that it wasn’t secure to have a desktop app, and since I don’t have my phone on me at all times I decided just fuck it and threw it all in one location. It’s less secure but there isn’t a decent desktop 2fa app available that I know of. Technically I could make a seperate keepass vault only for 2fa but that would be a second password to remember