Re: OT: Passkey usage

Charles Dennett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 8/13/26 5:15 PM, Barry wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 13 Aug 2026, at 21:52, Robert McBroom via users <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Lots of sites are promoting the use of a generated passkey vs a password. Some mention of using a passkey generated for site A on site B. Seems to be tied to the device. How is this better than a password?
> 
>  From my understanding…
> 
> For each site you generate a unique passkey, so sharing is not a thing.
> 
> Passwords require the site to store a secret that can be stolen.
> Passkey stores the secret on the client device so hacking the site does not give access to your secret.
> 
> Barry
> 
> 

I've stared using passkeys where they are supported.  I have Bitwarden 
installed on my desktop, phone (Android) and Chromebook with extensions 
installed in the browsers I use for managing and using  passkeys and 
passwords.  For those places where I use passkeys, I can still log in 
with the password.  So, how would one go about disabling passwords so 
that only passkeys can be used (for those sites that support them, of 
course)?

Charlie


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