Linux team has banned the use of terminology like ‘master’, ‘slave’, ‘blacklist’,‘whitelist’ etc and instead recommend developers to use more neutral words to welcome everyone.
For ‘master’ they recommend
primary/secondary
main/replica or subordinate
initiator/target
requester/responder
controller/device
host/worker or proxy
leader/follower
director/performer
this post was made 4 years ago and it has just 3 votes for it. this is not good. I do think it’d take replacing a lot of words, but i’d say the change is necessary.
Current state of affairs: A racist term is used for the password that enables access to the Bitwarden vault, whether on mobile, browser or desktop, namely “m_ster password”. The same term is used within the (web) app in various places when referring to this password.
Feature request: To change this racist term at the password prompt and everywhere within the (web) app.
Given an otherwise unmodified password manager, the following terms could be used instead: Bitwarden password, vault password, main password, access password. I’m sure there are more, these are just suggestions.
What’s important is that the racist term (“m_ster password”) is changed, and that that is understood as one of many necessary steps on the way to a just and equitable society, within Bitwarden, within tech and beyond.
I would love to see Bitwarden update their language so that “master password” is a “main” or “primary” password. Many organizations are acknowledging the negative connotations of the word “master” and making that change to be more inclusive. I hope Bitwarden will, too!
Sidenote: I changed the title from “Change Master Password to Primary Password?” to “Change / rename “master password” to e.g. primary or main password”, to help the search function…