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Reminder for Bitwarden users: Starting in February, users without two-step login (2FA) enabled will need to enter a verification code sent to their email when logging in from an unrecognized device (bitwarden.com)
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Bitwarden users who store their email account credentials within their Bitwarden vaults would have trouble accessing the sent codes if they are unable to log in to their email.

To prevent getting locked out of your vault, be sure you can access the email associated with your Bitwarden account so you can access the emailed codes, or turn on any form of two-step login to not be subject to this process altogether.

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The other option for traveling that might be better is use Keepass with the file stored on your phone, that way no internet is needed and there's no chance of lockout from your password DB.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Bitwarden caches passwords locally so if your self hosted instance goes down or is inaccessible to can still access those cached credentials and OTP codes.

I tested this thoroughly and was very nervous that a server outage at home would lock me out of the credentials I need in order to fix it. It's been good enough for me to get by until I can fix whatever is broken.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's true. I just have worries that the app might do something weird and require a log in and re-sync.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah it's worth considering risks. If I lose access to my credentials it would be a ridiculous amount of work to recover, probably losing access to some things forever.