An option to exclude certain letters or special characters

[cmn-it]

Code Contribution Proposal

Hello everyone,

Especially when you are working in the IT environment, you often use different keyboard layouts. If you can then enter passwords manually and not via copy&paste, this is complicated when typing and often leads to incorrect login attempts. Especially if you cannot display the password.

I currently edit the passwords manually after creating them with the generator to exclude the most common special cases in the password. With the European keyboard layout, Y and Z are often swapped or the - and / are not in the same position.

Ideally, there would be an option to exclude certain characters and letters globally or per user which are then not taken into account during password generation.

[PeterV989]

I wrote something in the feature request blog to this effect. My frustration lies in the fact that more sites are requiring special characters but there is no standardized set of special characters. I'd like to see a way to include or exclude a list of special characters. I thought about maybe copying the list the site has and paste it into an input box. Then BW could parse it and set checkboxes next to the allowed characters and reset the checkboxes next to the allowed characters. My thinking was only the punctuation symbols, but I suppose it could be expanded to any valid keyboard character.

[dwbit]

Hey @cmn-it, can you clarify if this is something you're interested in writing code for, or just passing along a feature request? For the latter, please visit: https://community.bitwarden.com/c/feature-requests/5/none, otherwise, feel free to share more detail on your code contribution.

[PeterV989]

I'd like to write code for it, but I'm not even sure I know where to start.

That being said, I guess I can fork my own copy and poke around a little.

Peter

[dwbit]

Roger that, don't hesitate to connect with Bitwarden developers via Gitter (linked in contributing docs) if you have any questions.

[PeterV989]

Thanks for the quick response. I've started looking at the setup documentation and I'm a bit overwhelmed. I probably should have started with that before I opened my big fat mouth. I fear my personal setup isn't up to the task of all the things that need installing. To begin with, I'm running Windows 11, not MacOS. I have never dipped into the MacOS world so the learning curve for that would be daunting, to say the least.

Thanks for the encouragement, but I guess we can hope someone else is up to the task. My concern would be that Windows 14 would be released before I was able to get my own environment set up and I could think about coding.

[dwbit]

No worries, don't hesitate to jump into the Gitter channel if you have any developer setup questions: https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#bitwarden_Lobby:gitter.im