Bitwarden Biometric Authentication doesn't work
The issue I ran into is that I can't enable the biometric authentication because when the TouchID prompt pops up the extension popup closes and gets locked, since Orion closes extension popups when the browser window loses focus.
getdustedyun And you have it enabled in the app?
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sbeaz Yes, I use it with all other browsers I have just fine. I only have this issue with Orion. I click the "Open with biometrics" checkbox, the TouchID popup opens, the extension closes (so it gets locked) and the link with the app never gets made
getdustedyun Are you using the Chrome or Firefox extension? Chrome works better.
it still doesn't working
Are you using the Chrome or Firefox extension? Chrome works better.
Same here - using the Chrome extension but the behaviour is the same with Firefox as well. When attempting to enable biometrics, it starts the communication with the desktop app but then disappears just before the touch id popup appears. Clicking on the touch id popup, there is now no response from the extension as it has "closed" and I need to put my master password in again. I don't know if the extension is crashing/reloading or whatever. I tried putting vault timeout to never at both sides temporarily and whilst that takes away the re-entering of the master password it still never sets up touch id.
There’s a great post on this but I couldn’t find it. I started from scratch had the same problem. In desktop Bitwarden preferences, I unchecked Allow browser integration and rechecked it and set up Touch ID again successfully. Another method that worked was setting up Unlock with PIN and then setting up Unlock with biometrics. I then disabled Unlock with PIN.
Thanks - by fiddling with that setting and bit of back and forth I finally managed to get it to work. Wasn't straight forward though.
planetwilson Exactly. That’s why I posted 2 different ‘options’.
it is working
i just need to check Allow browser integration option in Bitwarden Mac App.
Hi guys, I discoverd Orion today and I already like it !
The only thing that I didn't like was that the Bitwarden extension didn't worked with biometrics but it was quickly solved with the file trick thanks to @sbeaz.
HOWEVER, the com.8bit.bitwarden.json
file was not in
~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/
but in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Mozilla/NativeMessagingHosts/
.
I don't know why it was there (maybe cause I have never had Chrome on my mac) but when I placed it in
~/Library/Application\ Support/Orion/NativeMessagingHosts/
it worked with the Chrome AND the Firefox extensions.
Hope this could help someone
After adding the com.8bit.bitwarden.json file to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Orion/NativeMessagingHosts/ the Bitwarden extension, both Firefox and Chrome is asking to "Start the bitwarden application" however the app is already running and unlocked in the background
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The workaround above did not work for me as i did not have a Google folder within application support. Perhaps as i had never installed a google app on the machine before, including chrome. I just had safari, bitwarden app store app, and orion.
My solution involved:
- clean reinstall of bitwarden, including deleting ~/Library/Containers/Bitwarden as described here: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/how-to-uninstall-desktop-app-1-30-0-on-mac/37371
- installing chrome and opening it once
- reinstalling bitwarden addon (chrome version) in orion
i can't say for sure if each step is necessary im afraid
after this, the com.8bit.bitwarden.json was already in the right place, so I didn't have to perform the workarounds mentioned above.
i only needed to enable browser integration & touch id in bitwarden mac app, log into orion extension, enable touch id, and i got a system prompt (you might need to log in 1 more time before it works)
ps i have "require verification for browser integration" unchecked in bitwarden app settings
hope this helps
Not sure what we can do. I really do not like the idea of having a popup that comes up as users install an extension. Can you as Bitwarden users write to them and ask them to support this natively?
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Latest RC
Bitwarden biometrics authentication is still not working, no pop-up shows on screen for touch-id.
Leaving a screen record here on streamable
heisznberg Have you tried 'best answer'?