This is why I only use passkeys that are stored in my self hosted vault warden. As long as you don’t create passkeys locked to a vendor’s manager, I don’t see any reason to avoid them.
Hmm I haven’t had that issue, I have a lot of passkeys saved and they sync fine and are usable in Firefox on my laptop as well as with apps on my pixel 5 running lineage. I have noticed that occasionally an app will refuse to give me the option to create a passkey in bitwarden, but I just skip those and I haven’t noticed that issue in a while.
Have you checked whether the site entry shows the passkey on both devices? On mine it’ll say “passkey created …” on both devices in the vault.
The main problem is that there’s no place to view my passkeys like there is for passwords for TOTP (according to my searching and their website, anyway)
When you go to log in with a site that uses passkeys, bitwarden pops up with a list of passkeys for that site, the same way autofill shows your logins for that site.
In vaultwarden, they do appear in the web client. The behavior you’re describing hints that your passkeys are not being stored in bitwarden.
…and tbh, the UX sucks pretty bad: I was trying to store a passkey in bitwarden, but it was failing (unrelated networking error). I had two options: add it to bitwarden (which failed) or cancel. I hit cancel and was prompted for my fingerprint, which I provided – this ended up storing it on my device… no input, no description of what it was doing. The website came back with “passkey now enabled” :facepalm:
This is why I only use passkeys that are stored in my self hosted vault warden. As long as you don’t create passkeys locked to a vendor’s manager, I don’t see any reason to avoid them.
The Bitwarden client is so bad though. I seem to only be able to use the passkey on the specific device I saved it in.
I’ve experimented with this and haven’t had a problem. However, I was using the open source fork Vaultwarden and only the browser extension(s).
I am using the same combination, but the passkeys do not persist between different browsers
In the bitwarden browser extension, settings -> autofill -> “make bitwarden your default password manager”
Is this checked?
I also set a “pin” in settings -> account security -> “unlock with pin”.
(After reading the article: maybe passkey requires bitwarden to be “more secure” - I dunno)
Haven’t had that issue using Vaultwarden backend and bitwarden android, Firefox and Chrome extensions.
Yep, using the exact same and still have the problem.
Hmm I haven’t had that issue, I have a lot of passkeys saved and they sync fine and are usable in Firefox on my laptop as well as with apps on my pixel 5 running lineage. I have noticed that occasionally an app will refuse to give me the option to create a passkey in bitwarden, but I just skip those and I haven’t noticed that issue in a while.
Have you checked whether the site entry shows the passkey on both devices? On mine it’ll say “passkey created …” on both devices in the vault.
The main problem is that there’s no place to view my passkeys like there is for passwords for TOTP (according to my searching and their website, anyway)
When you go to log in with a site that uses passkeys, bitwarden pops up with a list of passkeys for that site, the same way autofill shows your logins for that site.
In vaultwarden, they do appear in the web client. The behavior you’re describing hints that your passkeys are not being stored in bitwarden.
…and tbh, the UX sucks pretty bad: I was trying to store a passkey in bitwarden, but it was failing (unrelated networking error). I had two options: add it to bitwarden (which failed) or cancel. I hit cancel and was prompted for my fingerprint, which I provided – this ended up storing it on my device… no input, no description of what it was doing. The website came back with “passkey now enabled” :facepalm: