Bitwarden Password Manager

Bitwarden is a fantastic password manager for personal and business environements; the ability to share passwords with other employees/groups, and also send self destructing notes is so much more secure than sticky notes / printouts / sharing credentials over chat platforms.

Disabling Auto Updates Nag:

On Startup, Bitwarden will show a popup prompting users to install an update if there is one available, but to actually install the update the user needs admin privilages.
This is a useless nag that cannot be disabled any doesn’t provide any benefit at all when Bitwarden is installed/automatically pushed out through Chocolatey.
The below workaround disables the ability for Bitwarden to auto download updates itself, which will also ensure the “install update” popup will not appear anymore.
This workaround is automatically put into place whenever Bitwarden is installed through the Windows Toolbox Setup Script

Windows [Source]

Delete (if exists) the following folder
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater

Then re-create it as a write-protected empty file instead.
Now Bitwarden won't be able to update itself.

Automatically using powershell:

# Get the current user's username
$username = [Environment]::UserName

# Define the folder path to delete/recreate
$folderPath = "C:\Users\$username\AppData\Local\bitwarden-updater"

# Check if the folder exists
if (Test-Path -Path $folderPath) {
    # Delete the folder if it exists
    Remove-Item -Path $folderPath -Recurse -Force
}

# Create the folder as a write-protected empty file
New-Item -Path $folderPath -ItemType File -Force
Set-ItemProperty -Path $folderPath -Name IsReadOnly -Value $true

Windows Auto Type

https://github.com/anonymous1184/bitwarden-autotype

Linux

https://github.com/mattydebie/bitwarden-rofi

Vaultwarden (Self Hosted Rust Based Bitwarden Backend)

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden