Further Emergency Access Settings Customization

Feature Requests Password Manager
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Feature name

  • Further Emergency Access Settings Customization

Feature function

  • Allow defining the wait time as a period longer than 90 days
  • Granular access controls, i.e. only allow view or takeover access of particular folders or login entries, not the entire vault
  • Ability to receive emergency access takeover notifications to secondary email address

Related topics + references

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Adding the ability to limit the take-over to certain folders would be a huge increase to both their feature’s functionality and it’s security.

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This feature request needs more visibility, especially the granular access controls are needed.

We need a way to exclude/hide all our porn credentials from the emergency access! :rofl:

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Also once emergency access is set up, it should be possible to adjust the waiting period without doing the 3-step process. There is no visibility on what the waiting period is for a given emergency contact. …Can we currently use the same trusted email twice? Meaning one waiting period for Takeover access, and another waiting period for View access?

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I also need more customization for the wait time. I would go even further and allow settings to the granularity of minutes (e.g. so that 30 minutes wait time is possible). Also agree that adjusting the period should be as simple as just entering the time and confirming the change.

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I was just getting started on setting up emergency access for my family, and found that it is only all-or-nothing, which is definitely not what I want.

I want to give access to a certain subset of folders, for financial institutions/etc.

What are the plans on this?

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This is not on the public development roadmap, and to offer my candid opinion, a feature request that has accumulated only 8 votes over almost 3 years is unlikely to get much attention from Bitwarden in the foreseeable future.

As a work-around, you could set up an organization, get yourself a second Bitwarden account, place the financial accounts in a collection that is shared with this second account, and then configure Emergency Access so that your next-of-kin can access (or take over) the second account if you are incapacitated. You would need to pay the $10 Premium subscription fee for the second account to set up Emergency Access, but you can let the subscription lapse after the first year (Emergency Access that has already been configured will continue to work).

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Another possibility is to pepper those passwords you do not want your loved ones to have after your demise.

But honestly, restricting access to your (e.g.) Facebook account will make it hard for your executors to perform an orderly close-down of your life.