What’s the point of using Bitwarden if Google Password Manager still shows the password? I understand that turning off Google Password Manager resolves the issue, but with remote team members, we can’t always ensure they’ve disabled it. When Google Password Manager remains active, it still prompts users to save passwords and displays them, which defeats the purpose of using Bitwarden. I really need help with this. Any trick to resolving this issue?
Hello @Christine and welcome to the community.
I am not sure which kind of remote team you mean, but does the help article Deactivate Browser Password Managers Using Device Management answer your question?
@Christine Welcome to the forum!
As you are referring to an enterprise environment, I’m not sure myself if there can be done something like Deploy Browser Extensions using GPOs, Linux Policies, & .plist Files | Bitwarden (there are respective instructions for the other BW clients in the Help Sites as well).
(PS: The link @marlin provided above might be more relevant for “already installed” BW apps!)
Other than that: Bitwarden doesn’t have “power” over what other password managers do. In the Chromium extensions (Settings → Autofill), you can make Bitwarden the “default” password manager
but when you don’t deactivate another password manager and still have credentials stored in there (and/or get offered to store new one’s in there), then that has to be resolved with that password manager – Bitwarden can’t override that.
I’m not sure, as we don’t use Google Workspace. We primarily use Outlook, but users still need to access browsers for certain websites — and that’s where the issue arises. While setting up a new user, her Google Password Manager hadn’t been disabled yet, and Google prompted her to save the password, displaying it in plain text.
Our goal is to provide new users with a master password to access websites without revealing the actual credentials. However, this doesn’t seem to work as intended, since Google Password Manager still exposes the passwords whenever it’s active.
Defining a group policy has to do with the operating system in use, not the productivity suite.
So which operating system do the remote team members use and how are those set up? Do they have administrator privileges?
Some of us use Windows and some use Mac. We don’t have admin privileges (only the owner does), but each employee sets up their own computer individually.
Is there a possible solution to this?
I honestly hope not. I do not want “random” web extensions being able to alter chrome web settings, such as disabling a different “extension” (using that term loosly). If Bitwarden were able to do it, what is stopping your garage door opener app from also being able to do so.
At most, extensions should be able to open the browser settings page for you and explain what needs to be set, but I don’t know that I even want them to be able to examine the current setting.
Change this:
… so that you have admin privileges. Let them use computers that you set up.
For better or worse, on their own computers they are always free to do what they want and you can’t control that.
I mean more like from Bitwarden end. Such that the password would not show up when the GPM is not disabled.
Thank you for the suggestion. If you think of anything else, kindly let me know.
BTW, here is the link for MacOS: Deactivate Browser Password Managers Using Device Management | Bitwarden
Another BTW: What exactly do you mean by “still shows” the password? – Because the browsers also always can still “show passwords” when you toggle visibility in a password field. That is out of the scope of Bitwarden and Google Password Manager, but a function of the browsers you can’t disable.
Well, what kind of solution do you expect?
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Perhaps you should take a step back and rethink the whole “sharing credentials others should not know”-idea. Why do your teammates need to use the same credentials?
Even if you solve the issue with Chrome’s password manager, there are so many ways to retrieve the password nonetheless.
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