Vaultwarden is a great solution to self-host your passwords, it’s compatible withe the Bitwarden client but what if you could get directly your passwords available in the search bar in gnome ?

Thanks to https://github.com/jle64/gnome-pass-search-provider/ and https://github.com/doy/rbw you can easily implement it.

Install the required tools

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# apt install python3-fuzzywuzzy pass wl-clipboard git
# git clone https://github.com/jle64/gnome-pass-search-provider.git
# cd gnome-pass-search-provider
# bash ./install.sh

The rbw tool can be downloaded for debian based distributions here

Configure rbw access to you bitwarden instance

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$ rbw config set email [email protected]
$ rbw config set base_url https://vault.example.com
$ rbw list
--> Type your password

You can modify other settings if you need to such as lock_timeout or sync_interval.

You can view the available options using rbw config show

Configure

Open a terminal and run

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systemctl --user edit org.gnome.Pass.SearchProvider.service

Add the following, save and exit (Ctrl-O , Ctrl-X)

Then save and restart the service with

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systemctl --user restart org.gnome.Pass.SearchProvider.service`

You will need to close your session and login again to make it work correctly