I mean, it only jacked up numerous accounts, organizations and collections for me for the last 2 hours…had me racking my brain thinking, “WTF is going on with Bitwarden?”, removing plug-ins, credentials, etc., only to get NO WHERE. If I hadn’t stumbled on this community forum and searched for “delete”, I’d still be living a nightmare scenario.
Please, please, please, for the love of all things technical, DO NOT turn Bitwarden into the Microsoft over-bloated and subscribed machine and just change things because someone thinks it’s a good idea. I’ve not ever had a need to visit the ADMIN CONSOLE in months (actually seems like years) and I can assure you no changes, updates were made…yet here we are, experiencing some wackadoo situation where I can create/modify stuff as an OWNER or ADMIN to “sorry, you can’t do that anymore” because I lack a new permission known as “Can Manage”.
Throwing in my two cents, as I’m not sure if it has been mentioned in this post. I too could not delete items from a certain collection in our vault although I am an owner. I granted “Can Manage” to the group for which I was a member but still could not delete. I then discovered that my user account also had been granted explicit “Can Manage” rights, once I removed the explicit rights then I could delete. Apparently, the explicit rights overrode the group rights. The explicit rights had been granted prior to the creation of the groups.
I’m still not understanding what I need to do. I seem to have all the permissions and settings that are described in this thread, yet I still dont seem to be able to delete items from the Edge browser extension. I’m the owner of my organization, yet any time I try and make changes i get an error “User can only be an admin of one free organization.”
I cant delete the entry from the brwoser or the website. Nothing was changed on my end to cause this.
I’m in the same boat. I really like Bitwarden, mostly for its simplicity. But these types of changes are uncomfortable and don’t seem to tighten up the user experience. See, the thing is password managers should be super simple to use correctly and it feels like Bitwarden is traveling down the path of confusion. I just spent an hour in the Admin console trying to unravel permissions between “Collections” and “Members”; it’s way to complex.
This comment made me think about whether it might be a good idea if there were two modes – like “basic” and “advanced” – for these settings.
I understand the need for more simplicity, but I guess the “complexity” allows e.g. for special cases and circumstances, others would miss to be able to configure if the possibility was gone altogether.
New update to Edit item permission - deleting items from collections
After listening to community feedback, Bitwarden will revert the behavior of the Edit item permission (previously called Can edit) so that organization members with that permission can again delete items from collections.
For a short time, the Edit item permission was restricted from deleting items, reserving that privilege for users with the Manage collection permission (previously called Can manage) to improve on role-based access and security controls.
With the behavior reverted, restricting deletion will be added as a flexible option - a new collection management setting available to organization owners, Limit item deletion to users with the Manage collection permission, will be available for those that wish to keep that restriction in place.
This update is targeted for later this month. Thank you for your input on this issue, the community and your feedback continue to improve Bitwarden for everyone!
Thanks for the ongoing willingness to listen to the voice of the customer and accept those suggestions that seem reasonable and implementable.
Regarding delete, if I can edit an item, I already can corrupt it to the point that it is non-usable, so re-adding delete doesn’t really change much except eliminating clutter.
