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Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by tcfhgj on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:27PM (#29797302)
I use Bitwarden, but the lack of auto type on Desktop as well as the limited selection of symbols of the password generator annoys me a lot
Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by benbristow on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:34PM (#29797401)
What symbols do you want? Kanji and Russian Cyrillic also?

The limited subset is that they're easily typeable on a normal English keyboard without having to resort to on-screen keyboards or alt sequences.

Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by tcfhgj on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:08PM (#29797861)
from KeePass at least:

- Upper-case

- Lower-case

- Digits

- Minus

- Underline

- Special

- Brackets

Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by jstx1 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:13PM (#29799711)
In the Bitwarden password generator you can use uppercase, lowercase letters, digits and !@#$%^&*. Is the lack of brackets or a minus really an issue for you?
Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by sliken on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @05:13PM (#29801348)
Does seem weird to ignore []{}-_,()'`"
Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by tcfhgj on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:19AM (#29808066)
there are more special characters, e.g. the following three: =/:
Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by ISO-morphism on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:55PM (#29798514)
Re: lack of autofill (at least for the browser extension), Ctrl-Shfit-L will fill in forms with the top candidate. Not quite autofill, but I find it faster than clicking.
Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by mada360 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:32AM (#29806553)
I think not having auto-fill enabled by default is a conscious decision as there was a big fuss how auto-fill can be abused because the input can be captured without submitting. https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...

There is the option to enable auto-fill on page load though https://bitwarden.com/help/article/auto-fill-browser/

Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by tcfhgj on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:57PM (#29799420)
I am speaking for the desktop application which can't auto fill/ auto type in different applications such as Element
Re:Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend? by mada360 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:35AM (#29806570)
This would be really helpful, it's always annoying having to deal with logging into different game clients when they randomly seem to log out