Suddendly getting: "Your authentication request appears to be coming from a bot." error after logging in

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Suddendly getting: "Your authentication request appears to be coming from a bot." error after logging in

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 7 comments

I think Bitwarden broke this amazing script :(

Answer 1 · 2021-10-08T23:12:45.000Z

Seems to be an issue of an alarming number of wrong passwords. I haven't seen this but documentation states that you can avoid the issue via API keys.

I'll see to add this as an option in the advanced settings.

Answer 2 · 2021-10-09T01:28:54.000Z

I am getting this too, might need an update quickly for it.

Answer 3 · 2021-10-09T13:10:09.000Z

I'm working on the fix, but even with a ridiculous amount of bad passwords and/or email/authenticator codes I cannot trigger the error.

Do you mind to share your location? Perhaps this is location-based. Do you have enabled any Two-Step Login method? Perhaps this is only triggered when no Two-Step verification is done.

Answer 4 · 2021-10-09T13:56:54.000Z

I'm in Canada. I originally did not have 2fa for this application. With 2fa enabled the error no longer pops up. I was still on the older release

Answer 5 · 2021-10-09T14:16:22.000Z

Thanks a lot, I can confirm. Seems like plain logins are no longer viable via CLI. Is either API key or a two-step method, I'm working on adding API as an option.

Answer 6 · 2021-10-10T01:41:00.000Z

so there's no way to place the api key in say, the settings json file, right now?

Answer 7 · 2021-10-10T02:36:08.000Z

Latest release v1.1.2 adds the ability to use a Personal API Key as login method circumventing this issue. Hopefully the underlying issue gets addressed by the Bitwarden Team otherwise any 3rd party app will be bound to use API Key instead of username/password + Two-Step Login.