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The convenience has come a long way on most password managers though, I started with lastpass when it was released and it would loose a few generated passwords

The convenience has come a long way on most password managers though, I started with lastpass when it was released and it would loose a few generated passwords now and then and yubikey would fail. I've been using bitwarden for a few years and I'm more than satisfied now, it just works as expected.

hunter2_ 7y ago
Lose a few? Is that like when a password stored by a browser no longer autofills because the website changed the field IDs or the subdomain or whatever else -- not lost but also not being used without digging it up?
- AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
  I can also attest to LastPass once "losing" a password. My memory of the event is hazy, but it went something like: 1) Logged into website with LastPass 2) Had to enter a second piece of identifying info (like a PIN). 3) Once entered, LastPass thought the PIN was a new password and prompted me, "Would you like to update the login to [url] with the new password?" 4) I clicked "No". 5) Some kind of network hiccup or communication failure happened, the pop-up kinda hung there for a bit. 6) I opened the vault and checked the password for that site. LP had apparently not honored my request and replaced the password and, more disturbingly, the password history was missing. Luckily I had my phone on me, and evidently it hadn't synced with LP's servers in the last few minutes, so I was able to pull out the old version of the password from the cached version of the fault and manually re-enter it on my computer to get the password fixed. I've never been able to reproduce the issue after that (although I'm not keen to try). But it did happen. LP also used to be pretty terrible at automatically saving passwords you entered into a form, even if you explicitly used the random password that LP generated. You really had to copy+paste it into notepad just as a backup until you could successfully confirm that it made it to the vault.

hunter2_ 7y ago

Lose a few? Is that like when a password stored by a browser no longer autofills because the website changed the field IDs or the subdomain or whatever else -- not lost but also not being used without digging it up?

AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
I can also attest to LastPass once "losing" a password. My memory of the event is hazy, but it went something like: 1) Logged into website with LastPass 2) Had to enter a second piece of identifying info (like a PIN). 3) Once entered, LastPass thought the PIN was a new password and prompted me, "Would you like to update the login to [url] with the new password?" 4) I clicked "No". 5) Some kind of network hiccup or communication failure happened, the pop-up kinda hung there for a bit. 6) I opened the vault and checked the password for that site. LP had apparently not honored my request and replaced the password and, more disturbingly, the password history was missing. Luckily I had my phone on me, and evidently it hadn't synced with LP's servers in the last few minutes, so I was able to pull out the old version of the password from the cached version of the fault and manually re-enter it on my computer to get the password fixed. I've never been able to reproduce the issue after that (although I'm not keen to try). But it did happen. LP also used to be pretty terrible at automatically saving passwords you entered into a form, even if you explicitly used the random password that LP generated. You really had to copy+paste it into notepad just as a backup until you could successfully confirm that it made it to the vault.