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How to sign up for and setup BitWarden

For password sharing, we use a version hosted directly with Pearing for our passwords. This requires a couple of changes to the default settings to work. Please follow the steps listed here to get BitWarden setup.

Create an Account

  1. Browse to https://bw.habitatlacrosse.org/ and click “Create account” at the bottom.
  2. Use your Habitat email address to create your account.
  3. When choosing the Master Password be sure to choose a complex password that you can remember. There is NO WAY to gain access to your passwords if this is forgotten. You can set a password hint to help if you do forget, but if that doesn't help, you will not be able to access your passwords.
  4. Click “Create account.”
  5. You will receive an email to verify your email address. It may go to spam. Please find this email and click the verify button to verify your address.
  6. Once this has been completed, please let Tage or Kahya know you have an account and we can add you to the Habitat password vault.
  7. Once you have been added to the Habitat vault, you will receive an email for you to confirm your acceptance to join the vault. Please click the button to accept.
  8. Once you have accepted the invite, please follow up with Tage or Kahya to approve you one final time.

Setup BitWarden in Your Browser

  1. Head on over to https://bitwarden.com/download/ and download the browser plugin for the web browser that you use.
  2. Once you have downloaded the extension for your browser, be sure to click on the puzzle piece in Chrome or Edge to show BitWarden all the time.
  3. Click the pin to pin the plugin to the browser bar.
  4. Click on the BitWarden icon, then enter your email address, check the remember email button, and then click on the “Logging in on: bitwarden.com link to change the server.
  5. Select “self-hosted” from the drop down.
  6. Enter https://bw.habitatlacrosse.org in the “Server URL” box, and then click “Save.”
  7. Click Continue on the main screen.
  8. Enter your master password and click “log in with master password.”
  9. Once the vault displays, click on the “Settings” button at the bottom.
  10. Under “Security” select “Never” from the Vault timeout dropdown list.
  11. Click “Yes” on the warning screen.
  12. Your BitWarden is now setup.

For Admins

Add user to Company Vault

  1. Navigate to https://bw.habitatlacrosse.org and login.
  2. Click on “Organizations” at the top.
  3. Click on “Members.”
  4. Click on ”+ Invite member.“
  5. Enter the email address of the new user.
  6. Select the role of the user. This will usually be “User.”
  7. Click on the “Collections” tab at the top and assign the user to the vaults desired.
  8. Click “Save.”
  9. The user will get an email that they have to click on a link to accept the invite.
  10. Once the user has accepted, refresh the members tab and click on the “Needs confirmation” tab to approve them.
  11. Click on the three dots on the right and approve the user.

Remove user from Company Vault

  1. Navigate to https://bw.habitatlacrosse.org and login.
  2. Click on “Organizations” at the top.
  3. Click on “Members.”
  4. Click the three dots on the right of the user you wish to remove, and choose the “Remove” option.