Unlocking and locking

Open the vault with your master password or a passkey, and know when it closes.

When you enter an account with the vault closed, you see the unlock screen. Type your Master password and press Unlock. If it is wrong, the screen says “Could not unlock. Check your master password.”

Unlock with a passkey

A passkey — your fingerprint, face or a security key — can open the vault instead of the password. You set it up with the vault already open:

Go to Security.
Under Unlock with a passkey, press Set up a passkey and follow your browser.
From then on, the unlock screen on that device shows Unlock with a passkey.

An unlock passkey can do everything your master password can. Set it up only on devices where you would type the password anyway. Your master password keeps working.

Not every passkey can open a vault: it needs a feature called PRF. If yours lacks it, the app says so — the passkey can sign you in, but not unlock.

When the vault closes

When you press Lock, always visible next to the navigation.
When you reload the page or close the tab: the keys live only in that tab's memory.
When you switch to another account.
After fifteen minutes without you touching it, or two minutes after the tab stops being visible. A banner warns you for the last minute, and anything you press keeps it open.

What keeps it open is you: a click, a key, a scroll. The app syncing on its own does not count — if it did, the vault would never lock and nothing would look wrong.

Lock, sign out, sign out everywhere

Lock drops the keys and keeps you signed in. Coming back only needs the master password.
Sign out, in the menu with your name, ends your session in Musubi Vault.
Sign out everywhere also ends your Musubi identity session, which Vault shares with the other Musubi apps. Use it on a borrowed computer. You will be asked to confirm.

Several accounts

The account you are in is part of the address (/t/your-address), and you switch from the menu with your name. Each account has its own keys: “Switching accounts locks the vault. Each one has its own keys, and unlocking one never unlocks another.”