Beginners Guide to Bitwarden and Password Managers

I use bit warden and password managers in general but before we do that there's something very very important you have to do and that is create your master pass or your master password needs to be something very unique something you've never used before and something to never use again beyond as a password for your bit warden account I find that people will have a hard time creating one so I've given you a little tip here what you wanna do is open up a notepad or whatever get piece of paper out and write this down write down the email account then you can use this example here the third favorite book do not pick your first ever book because people will pick the Bible or some Harry Potter book or something very popular pick your third favorite or pick your third non favorite book then go to page 42 then on the word 12 write down the actual word and then you can go and pick out the first five characters of Appliance you something big that's something you don't change often like a washing machine TV fridge and pick up the first five characters of the serial number and that's what done right there then it's write down your monthly car payment you can do what I've done down to the cent then what you want to do is combine all three of them together and that will be your master password everything about this is that it's very unique it's easier for you remember and when you write this down you don't have to write down this answer right here you can leave the answer here and there and they're out so you want to give away your actual master password so you buy some upon the piece of paper you'll have to worry about them actually knowing it there'd be a link down in the description below we can get more of these examples you can choose from password bits comm and what you want to do is write this down you want to send be in a physical form then you want to take it and store it in two places so you want two copies of this one place you'll keep somewhere in your home very secure maybe a fireproof safe then the second piece of paper with a copy of all this you want to keep somewhere off-site so a safe-deposit box or with a trusted friend or a family member whoever the reason why you do it off-site just in case of natural disaster like a fire or a flood destroys the piece of paper and the reason why we do this in reason why this whole thing and making masse prosper is so important is because if you lose your master password or you forget it nobody can help you that is a security feature with all legitimate password managers because if they knew how that they could reset the password so could someone who hacks their service so this is important that you do not forget your master password you don't want to use a password manager or that allows you to reset your master password because that's a security vulnerability so this is the most important thing you'll do is write down your master password it doesn't have to be this exact example but anything as 15 characters or more will be perfect and long as you never use it before or never use it again beyond what you use it for as your master password for Bill warden you'll be fine but it is important I must stress this again that you write down your master password because if you lose it you forget it nobody can help you so write it down all right now I can move on to the fun stuff we need to create an account so we do go to bit warden comm then we go to create account I'm just going to use my email but you would enter your own email there you can enter whatever name you want you can leave it as Tiger Bob it doesn't really matter then the master password will use my example here and they say it's pretty strong but of course make your own mess pass or do not copy or divide do not copy my master password you can't copy the same building blocks I used or get a link down the description below and see more examples or come up with your own since I got you here a a sentence that doesn't make sense also works so the sky is lemon pie Turkey it's also a good master password just remember to write it down all right back to what we were doing that's the password hen you can leave a blank but you can say look and save because hopefully your took my advice and wrote it down put it in safe then hit submit and chrome asked you same password had never alright the account is created so I'm going to go and grab my master password I'm going to enter it in just type it in and we'll hit login and chrome asked you're not save the password keep it from asking that question again we'll go to the little icon there that's your little person icon there might be a picture that you put there I'm gonna go down to passwords and we're going on check offer to safe passwords and auto sign-in that's important especially when using a password manager this keeps from chrome from annoying you alright cool beans now we got two we can use it like it is now and go to add item you can do whatever you can use it like this you can generate a password click on that and you can save the easiest way to use bit warning is they go into a new tab go back to a bit to warden calm and we go down to click on the Downloads button you can download the application itself but I recommend going to the web browser section right here and clicking your web browser used i got google chrome click that click the add to Chrome button over here add extension cool then you get prompted with the video that BitTorrent creator made right here pretty good video I highly recommend you watch it but we're gonna go over all the things he says there and more I'm going to go to the extensions over here just click on it it's gonna ask you a login its grab my email and I'm a spaz word and one thing about this mess passer do not save it on your computer print it out you want physical copies you don't want the digital copies so once you're done with it delete that and you have your two physical copies of it then you will have to enter key or the login button there and then you're logged in and the one that kind of create is right there so you click it pops right up there's a close button there then what we're gonna do you make our lives a little bit easier go back there's the identity button here I'm gonna click it and it's gonna show me all identities I did these are your name phone number email address so I'm just gonna add that this will make filling out new accounts and updating accounts a lot easier so they just wear her name is not my real name just picking whatever and be mr. doesn't really matter and do Ted P Paul username whatever username you always use doesn't matter whatever using you always like to use but what I'm really concerned about is putting in my email if you want you put your phone number down below because this will make filling out accounts and creating it accounts so much easier and you set the Save button and there you go there's your account create it and it's saved with all your other items here it's clicking on it will bring it up but added buttons right there so you can edit it so what we want to do is we want to create an account it's got a big lots just for example I really want my location all right I'm going to create an account dang let me click the icon that were nikon you can see we have no logins I can create a login so we can do is being created on login so go ahead and log in username for this particular website is this kind of where you have to use some logic this one doesn't ask for a username but asking for a email address so technically that's the email address user name and email address so we just gonna put that in there we go down to the password section here and there's little rotating arrows is how you generate a password so we click that and according to Big Lots we must have 8 8 characters long includes a one uppercase or lowercase and one number well that password right there it's pretty good you have the length selector here you can get upper lower numbers and special summit symbols and just like that it turns on and off you also have a minimum maximum minimum numbers minimum special and avoid ambiguous characters that means do not use OHS and zeros or ones and eyes because it looks very similar and he underneath options you have password or passphrase the reason you would go with a passphrase is something you got to mainly type in something like Netflix for example they still make you use your d-pad on TV to enter your password it's like easier enter these particular passwords right here than it is to type in something super random like that but when it comes to passphrases uniqueness is the most important factor when it comes to online counseling Netflix but when it comes to offline accounts or a very important account it's like email your bit worn in account you want the length of the password matters at most so anything 15 or above is perfect so I'm just gonna go with the password sample there I like the example he's giving me there we use press the Select by the top right the plug-in you can see it the little check mark bot will check poverty checks if has been any any breaches it does securely without revealing the password basically it turns into a hash the hash is about how 128 characters long I'll instance the first five characters over to the server server sends back everything that starts with the first five characters then on your machine it checks to see if it's in any breaches as we saw there was a green I said this was not any beef broth password breaches as using have Ivan poem calm you can check it yourself since we're on the website the URI or URL whatever you want to call it it's already filled in so Big Lots that's perfect you can put it in a forward if you want to I'm not in favor tit note sections like for to quite security questions like why high school Ubuntu and you can do whatever you want putting the more random began tour the better you don't want to use real answers and that's within those sections for so you can put these security questions in and custom fields no one's really worried about that I usually put everything in the notes section but the custom fields it makes a little more prettier and when you're happy with everything here you can go to save then you as you can see the big locks is created there so if we clicked that itself it fills it in so we got the username and the password fill it in and we can of course title everything in so we'll just do that and I'm not signing up for any rewards and create account awesome so we created an account I mean what I like to do is make sure the account is that promised I'd like to sign out then when we get to the page of Big Lots we go to whatever I'm not creative Callum sorry go to my account and you're prompted to sign in we go to the bit more an icon at the top you can see there's a 1 next oh that's telling us that there is one item with a URL that's stored and of all that matches here so what we can do is we can click the name Big Lots comm or the title right there and that will fill it in for us and we can just sign in also should make note that when you click the name it will fill it in but there's also these three little buttons up here this review that has a copy user name that's to copy the password so you can you can just take a look at the items area you can see the password and all the other data you put there the notes will high-school pudding doesn't matter and we'll close that and you can also see all your rest items in your Maia vault section here I'm going to see all the accounts recreated there you also have the generator so you can the TV if you need to generate a password out to top your head you can just select different ones to choose from and copy the password you also have a password history here for your generator and it shows you every pass where it's been generated and low off the time you can clear it going there back then you have your settings you can have it lock options you can have a lock on browser restart which is what I recommend if you have you work in a place you only messing with it and do immediately or one minute do not recommend doing never unless you really need it so you're at home you keep the doors locked no one's gonna have access who doesn't need to have access it never gets into it so you can select that option if you worry about it's having because you have a long mess how swearing more about logging in because the long pass party and you don't want to type in all the time you can use a pen so I can do like a four digit PIN or it can be however long you want to actually doesn't have to be numbers can be letters symbols or whatever so you can quickly log in so that the typing your LMS password but if you do logout or remove this extension it will ask you for your master password to log back in so do not forget your master password make sure you write it down this is very important that no one can help you I need to drive home because I see in way too many times people forget their master password and get logged out account I'm talking about that I also want to have told you to print this out I recommend you also write down when you change your email password I recommend you write it down on the same sheet here along with your master password because your email is very important you also want to change and make sure it's a unique password too after you've gone through all your accounts you wanna do your email first and your banking first and work your way through all the other counts when you're changing and getting set up with amount I'm a password manager and you want to write it down with the same sheet here because your email can be use to reset passwords for every other accounts so it's just nice to have or something ever happens you can always do that and get back into the couch just to extra precaution or highly recommend people especially if you need password managers write down your email password and with your master password and this sheet here that you print out and you keep in two locations now well if you need to change a password because you're gonna pass her manager you probably already have a ton of passwords but I guarantee you have more than you realize so how do you change the password when you go to the website and this is pretty common right here a lot of the password managers have you go ahead and change the password and then you hit the Save button a lot of them will pop up say hey you want me to save that I recommend you don't do that because sometimes things happen you don't want to be the guy loses his password so what I recommend you do is go up to the same way you created a password click on warden icon and we go into it by clicking the view button there that view buttons next to the it's just three ones right here so we click that and we go into it and we press the edit button and I just like to look at the password you click the I button and then the rotating arrow buttons so says it's go write your password I don't want you to freak out it's okay we'll hit yes and we're gonna pick a new password whatever the requirements are I like that one so I'm gonna press the select then we'll press the Save button right next right there at the top right so it's safe know you think wait a minute where's we lost an old password they're gonna asked for the current password over here no big deal what I'm going to do is I'm going to click this kit clipboard icon cuz that's my new password I'm gonna paste it in a new password section and for the current password I'm going back to the bit warning icon I'm gonna click all and view the item and that when it kind of hides this hopefully improve this in the future but at the very bottom it says password history down here there's a one it doesn't look it's a button but it's a button you press it and there's my old password there's that clipboard icon we're gonna click that I've copied to the clipboard we're gonna paste that in I'll do the command V or ctrl V but you can do the right-click and paste and we're going to save password and there you go you successively change the password and the person of habit I like to sign out to make sure it worked I'm going to sign back in click the bit or an icon click the name of the item on their logins autofills it press sign in look at that it works that's how you change a password now the warden doesn't have an automated password changer so unfortunately you want to do this manually so I recommend you do your email first then your banking email accounts probably most important count next to bit Orden so you want to make sure it's a good strong password I recommend using the password passphrase option and have at least 5 or more words this a bigger example and you can get fancy you can capitalize it you can include a number have you do capitalize an included number I would still feel comfortable having for number of words because it's still pretty unique but whatever you feel comfortable with as what you go with and that's the gist of it that's how you get started with bit warning and password managers in general you have access to it via the plugin here you can go to the wardens website that warn calm there's a login button at the top right of the website where you can enter your master password and go to the web version so if you need to log in say somewhere you don't have access to your computer maybe our friends or a bank or whatever you need to log in you can give you the viewlet web portal everything is encrypted and decrypted locally on the machine and that's why it's important you don't forget your mess work because you need that to decrypt and encrypt information and without that if you forget your master password like I keep saying no one can help you and you got other stains you can go through and sign up for the different premium account we can get more like to factor and other options like that but right now this is a good starting point start changing your passwords make sure your passwords are unique you're needing this is important do not reuse passwords for important accounts you want length length is the most important so pass phrases good and congratulations there's a lot more secure now

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Length: 21min 24sec (1284 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 07 2019