Saving a Generated Password Creates a New Vault Entry

[marlin]

Hello,

I am a little bit confused about the process of updating a password on any website. Let’s assume that I filled out the old password with the existing vault entry. After that, the option to generate a password appears:

After that, the browser extension offers to store the new password:

The next step is confusing since it creates a completely new vault entry (note the missing username, item name has been changed by me):

My expectation would be that the existing vault entry is updated. What am I doing wrong?

[grb]

I think that Bitwarden requires the username to identify whether a password save prompt should result in an update or a new login. But I also recall that there has been some discussion about possible buggy behavior. Let me dig a little…

Update:

This bug report is what I was thinking of (seems related, but I’m not sure if it is 100% matching your concern):

Unexpected behavior of "Ask to update existing login" when changing username

There is also a related feature request:

Autosave prompt should update email address changes

When you change the email/login Bitwarden asks to update the data, but the data is not updated. You need to do this by hand. I’m not sure if this was something that was working or not. You don’t often change the login. But if you don’t have a feature to update the login, why do you ask to update the data? You give the false impression that you saved something, which is not true.

[Nail1684]

Hm… aditionally to what @grb just wrote: I guess an “Update existing login” button in the inline autofill menu/generator (besides the “Save login” function) would come in handy here…

I’d also have to search for it, but I think there might not be an explicit feature request about that yet.

PS: Clicking such an “Update existing login” button could open some possible matches / suggestions including a search field…

[grb]

@Nail1684

I guess an “Update existing login” button in the inline autofill menu/generator (besides the “Save login” function) would come in handy here

There is such a button:

[Nail1684]

@grb

@Nail1684

I guess an “Update existing login” button in the inline autofill menu/generator (besides the “Save login” function) would come in handy here

There is such a button:

Oh, is that the inline autofill menu/generator?

I think @marlin was primarily talking about using the inline autofill generator for changing a password. – But I think, one (current) solution could be to use the inline autofill generator, but not to use the “Save to Bitwarden” button (as that would create a new login item as @marlin pointed out), but to submit the password change form and hope the autosave prompt intercepts the change. (and that would be the “Update existing login” prompt that @grb mentioned)

[marlin]

@grb

There is such a button

Okay, that’s interesting. What can I do so that the button appears? Searching for bitwarden “update existing login” just reveals a lot of questions from the short period when this was offered after every login.

The page I was showing above is Patreon by the way. No matter where I click in which order, I do not get the “Update existing login” offer.

[grb]

@marlin

What can I do so that the button appears?

I wasn’t paying attention to the context of your original post — the button I mentioned appears when you enable the prompts that ask if you want to update passwords, but it would be shown in a pop-up at the top of the browser, not in the inline autofill menu. To enable, check the box for the option “Ask to update existing login”, under Settings > Notifications.

[marlin]

@grb

the button I mentioned appears when you enable the prompts that ask if you want to update passwords

Thanks a lot, that helped. After enabling that option, the exact same workflow showed an option to update the existing credentials.