Fill generated password -- can't get the password

Ask the Community Password Manager
, ,
1

On many sites there’s no option to “view” the password. I use bitwarden for many things including saving sever logins etc.

I’m sure I’m missing something obvious but unless bitwarden creates a new entry for the site or updates the existing one automatically I’ve been unable to find a way to actually access the generated password.

So I create a new account and let bitwarden fill in the generated password and then create and when I go to log back in I don’t know what the password is. I’ve tried clicking on the value, checking my clipboard, right clicking. Nothing appears to give access to the password any clicks just replace with a new password.

This makes this functionality essentially unusuable unless the input has the ability to show the password.

1 Like
2

@calbrenar Welcome to the forum!

When the Bitwarden extension generates a password like you described, it should be added in the “password history” of the generator:

2025-03-26--15-48-46-vivaldi_5ykYN8r24A
2025-03-26--15-48-46-vivaldi_5ykYN8r24A603×598 20.1 KB

You may have to scroll down on the generator page to see the “Generator history”.

1 Like
3

I recently went to change the password and Bitwarden filling in a newly genrated password. I accepted the password but I have no idea where it went. There was no login created in Bitwarden. Why doesn’t Bitwarden pop-up a new login screen and allow you to fill in additional details? Am I doing this wrong?

4

@A-Human I moved your post into an existing topic.

FYI, this is a known bug (Issue #13258), which is being addressed (PR #14110). In the meantime, a method for retrieving the generated password is described above.

1 Like