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Browser Biometric Approval

Bernd Schoolmann edited this page Jan 19, 2024 · 7 revisions

Goldwarden implements Bitwarden's browser extensions' biometrics login protocol. This means that you can use Goldwarden to unlock your browser extension using Linux biometrics.

In order to set this up, run: goldwarden setup browserbiometrics

Then, enable biometrics in your browser extension. This currently only works with browsers that are not running inside of flatpak/snap sandboxes.

Sometimes, automatic detection of your browser might fail. To fix this, create a "nativemessaginghosts" folder, for mozilla based browsers this is in a directory such as: ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/, ~/.librewolf/native-messaging-hosts/ and so on.

For chromium based browsers, this is a path such as: .config/chromium/NativeMessagingHosts/.

Then, re-run the setup. If this does not work, please file a bug report.