Do you use the CLI? We have questions!

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Hello all,

If you use the Bitwarden CLI in an enterprise environment, Bitwarden would love to better understand your use-case in general and also know the answer to these specific questions:

  1. Do you use bw login --sso?
  2. Do you have dedicated users for automations, and if so, how do you configure their permissions?

Any other information you care to provide about your use-case, or feedback about the CLI experience in general is much appreciated. If you do not want to share publicly, send me a DM!

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Hi,

I use the Bitwarden CLI (on GNU/Linux) mainly for taking regular backups (for both my individual vault and the organization vault). I use the CLI to backup both the vault items and its’ attachments.

Another use I give the CLI is for some queries/reports that can’t be run on any gui client (items created/modified between a date interval, for example). Although this is not very often.

I also use the CLI very occasionaly for a couple of bash scripts that need secrets stored securely.

I use it on both my work account (enterprise organization, with just 20 seats) and my personal one (which is sponsored by my work account) in a very similar way.

AFAIK, I’m the only one on our team that uses the CLI. We have SSO configured for our org with our IdP, but I don’t use it to login to Bitwarden, because I can’t (I’m an owner of the organization).

We do not have users dedicated to automations.

If you need more details, just ask. If they can be shared publicly, I would answer here, if they can’t, via PM.

Thanks!

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Thanks for sharing your use case, Kiko. I also use the Bitwarden CLI primarily for automation tasks, mainly for pulling secrets into deployment pipelines and managing credentials for scripts that run on schedule. We’re a slightly larger team, and while not everyone uses the CLI, we do have a couple of dedicated service accounts for automation. Permissions are tightly scoped using collections to limit access. I haven’t tried using bw logi, sso yet either, but it’s on my list to test. Good to hear how others are using it in smaller teams, too.