I just keep my master password written on a piece of paper tucked into my wallet.
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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨days⊠agoI donât have a safe to put the password in, and Iâm too skeptical of my family to just have it in plaintext.
But now I found a solution, a compromise, instead of writing the actual master password, I paid for premium so that I can set up emergency access and make my secondary account as the trusted contact, then put the username and password to this secondary user on a piece of paper in plain text and even write âBitwarden Emergency Accessâ on it.
Even if a snooping family member got it, they wouldnât be able to access my vault, I set the timer to at least 2 weeks, and I check the emergency contacts webpage every few days to make sure the timer hasnât started ticking. If I ever get an email, or check the page and see the emergency access request being made, Iâll know I have to confront someone.
And meanwhile, this also protect me in case I forget the master password to the main account, or like have anmesia or something. The drawer is a prominent visible place, so even if I lose my memory, Iâd probably be looking for clues and find the paper with the log in info. Then wait 2 weeks and voila!
I love the Emergency Access feature, what a wonderful Idea! I wish I used it the first time.
forrgott@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
That⌠seems insecureâŚ
I hope nobody just steal the paper and your entire digital identity.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
It sounds like you have this sorted now, but I will share my tip anyway.
My master password was a randomly generated pass phrase of a few words, such as what you can generate with Bitwardenâs password generator set to âpassphraseâ
Using an example Iâve just generated with that tool, if I had decided on a master password of âDaily-Exorcist-Nappy-Cornmealâ, then I would generate a few more passwords and write those down too. So Iâd have a list that might look like this:
snowman
daily
uncanny
backer
exorcist
thinner
showoff
nappy
cornmeal
nifty
(I have bolded the words belonging to the actual master password from my example above, but obviously thatâs not how itâd be written down. To remember that the passphrase has the words separated by hyphens, you could draw dashed lines around the list, like a decorative border. Here, I have also written words all in lowercase, even though the password has uppercase. (Though I would advise keeping the passphrase in the correct order, as I have in this example, because itâs easy to pick out the correct four words from a list like this, but harder to remember the right order for them).
I donât have a safe either, but writing things down like this felt like a sufficient level of security against snooping family and the like. Though like I say, it seems like youâve resolved this differently, so this is more for others who may stumble across this than for you.
I agree with you that the emergency access feature is great. A couple of years ago, my best friend died and I ended up being a sort of âdigital stewardâ of all his stuff, because I was his tech guy and he had shitty passwords that I couldnât convince him to change. In the end, his laziness meant we got to preserve some digital mementos that would otherwise be lost (such as his favourite decks on Magic:Arena). At the time, I was using a personal system to generate and remember passwords, and I was shaken to consider how much would be lost if I died. I feel far more at ease now with the Emergency Access feature from Bitwarden Premium (I also like being able to use Bitwarden for 2FA codes). Iâm sorry that you had the unfortunate experience of being locked out of your stuff, but Iâm glad you were able to secure yourself such that youâre protected from that in future.