Allow saving entries with an empty password

Feature requests
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Q1. What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
I want to save entries with an empty password. This is valuable for placeholders where the real password is stored elsewhere and we want to direct users there rather than duplicate the password.

Q2 - Who is impacted?
All users I guess.

Q3 - Why is it important and/or urgent?
Not urgent.

Q4 - What is your proposed solution? (optional)
Eliminate validation on the password field being zero length / required.

Q5. Community support
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  • :ok_man: Must have: this is critical for me to have this
  • :raising_hand_man: Should have: this is important for me to have this
  • :tipping_hand_man: Could have: this could be nice to have
  • :no_good_man: Won’t have: we should not schedule this (explain why)
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Not being able to have an empty password is very annoying.

  • Not all password database entries need to be about a single password to copy-paste so being able to not have an explicit password is a nice feature to have.
  • On the other hand, being forced to fill the password field, users don’t have a choice than put something useless but recognisable, like “N/A”. This, of course, gets a “this password was pwned” prompt. If a global check for pwned passwords were to be implemented, the list could never be clean.

Having imported all my original passwords using a .csv file, I have a lot of empty fields which I need to change to “N/A” any time I need to update anything else, like notes in the description.

Please consider allowing blank or disabled passwords. Even a simple “are you sure?” prompt would be a great improvement.

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I agree with them, it will be helpful to leave the password field empty with an “Are you sure?” quickly to avoid confusion.

I have some passwords like these, for example, SSH credentials from users who don’t have passwords and use a certificate stored in the encrypted description or maybe websites that use passkeys (or SMS codes) to authenticate and don’t have passwords.

I know this could be fixed in the future with custom fields or adding a passkey for example, so it’s not urgent for me. But I understand that maybe other people use it in different use cases and it is useful too.

I added the poll to the first post because it was missing and now the community can give us feedback