Emergency Access: Support Hidden or Delete Flags on Folders and Items

[lzinga]

Background

Vaultwarden’s emergency access feature allows trusted contacts to access the vault in emergencies. While the current system manages access levels, it is either view access or full take over.

Problem

Users may want to keep certain accounts or folders private by hiding them from emergency contacts unless there is a full takeover. Additionally, users might want the option to delete sensitive items or folders upon full takeover, but this should remain optional.

Proposal

Enhance emergency access with the following features:

• hide_for_emergency: Items or folders flagged as such will be hidden from emergency contacts when granted access, regardless of access type.

Extending these flags to folders allows users to manage visibility and deletion preferences efficiently at a group level. You could also potentially add an option to delete_for_emergency so the records get removed during certain situations. Though the delete method may need some further investigation for emergency take overs for the owner of it if they lose access, in this case the user may not want to delete records.

[BlackDex]

Vaultwarden doesn't maintain any client, amd since clients should support this feature it isn't something we can add on our side.

Also, this kinda goes against the whole purpose of this feature in my opinion.

[lzinga]

whoops, sorry. You're right that this wouldn't be something added here. My bad.