For me it is critical that Proton Pass can be accessed with a master password instead of Proton's credentials as it is done in absolutely all other password managers.

I manage all my access data with Proton Pass. So on the one hand, it should be as easy and direct as possible to access Proton Pass quickly, and on the other hand, it should be as secure as possible.
For me, this means that Proton Pass needs its own login. And I personally would very much appreciate it if this were also possible via a hardware key such as Yubikey.

I agree with Joseph (19 april 25). In my case, I would like to access Proton mail (which needs strong randomized unmemorable password), via proton pass and his separate independeant password (complex but memorable) only. It works this way on KeepassX, for example. Other Proton apps might be accessible eventualy from this point.Thanks !

I created an account here just to comment on this issue and i hate making extra accounts. I am a proton unlimited paying customer and pretty happy with proton in general. I wanted to try out Proton Pass and want to like it. But this problem with the passwords just makes it basically unusable in my use case. I have a pretty complicated password i remember that gets me into my password vault. From there i can gain access to everything such as Proton Mail. This allows me to have everythng logged out and locked down on my device. If the Pass password is the same as my proton account, it means i have to memorize my proton account password. Certainly doable but not the way i have my security organized right now.

Anyway I will remain a customer but will not start using Pass until it has a separate and completely independent password from my proton account.

Thanks for reading.

I'd like to chime in and agree with many of the people here that to me it would make sense to be able to login with the extra password after the auto-lock and not with biometrics or a pin on a device where you're already logged in with Proton, since both of those are clearly not as secure as the external password. If someone can explain me why this is not necessary/possible, that would also be great. Until then, I will have to keep a different password manager just for logging in to Proton, since I'd prefer not to use my master password for all Proton accounts. And creating a separate Proton account just for this, as seems to be suggested by several people in this thread, sounds really illogical (also because I am already paying for this 1 account).

Proton Pass is blocked by my employer, which means I will need to subscribe to another password manager and not use this feature from Proton.

Here is the exact reason from IS-Security:
Unfortunately the Proton password manager application and web service are directly tied to the same domain that Proton uses for its VPN service. Due to this, we cannot allow access to the Proton domain on our managed devices that have access to patients' data - as we do not allow access to personal VPN services.

Still on bitwarden because of this

I'd particularly like to see this for browser extensions. Currently, there is no way to set the extra password as the authentication required after auto-lock - users are limited to no auto lock or setting a PIN. Why? I can do that with the Windows app, but not the extension? Forces me to have 3 passwords to access one service: Proton account password, extra password for Proton windows client, and PIN for Proton browser extension.

Bitwarden and Enpass aren't this convoluted.

Instead of a 6-digits Pin Code to unlock my proton pass chrome extension I would like the possibility to choose between a Pin Code or a strong password either my Proton password or a new custom Proton Pass Extension password. Similar to the Proton Pass desktop application, for which you need to provide your Proton password everytime accessing your passwords.

I'd like to see SSO between all products including the uservoice forum!

To be fair, once a passkey has authenticated you along with 2FA, it's safe to say your in and perhaps at worst, an extra biometric catch on the passkey but not a full account login anywhere. Definitely a very nice to have.... :)

Log into extension with password. Right now you can only sign in with a pin, which is not as secure as the master password.

How can Proton's engineers make such a nonsensical mistake/solution?
For now I have to pay for another password manager..

What is also very annoying is that Proton Pass, with the extra password, doesn't work the same way as Proton Mail in the two-password mode. The extra password in Proton Pass is not used to encrypt emails. That is the best way to confuse people.

This and the previous (improperly closed, IMO) request now has nearly 1,900 votes. A second password on top of the master is, in some ways, a little helpful but is not nearly sufficient. Please give us this. I will continue to use Bitwarden as my primary password manager until this is done.

It is obvious how much the user base needs this.

I am a Proton Unlimited user. Would like to switch to using Proton Pass from 1P. However, it seems that in order to login to Proton Pass, you have to have access to your Proton password and 2FA (if enabled), which cannot be generated until you are logged into Pass! Therefore, you would have to have your Proton password memorized and use a recovery code to get logged into Pass. Or, you would have to use another password manager for your Proton credentials and 2FA, which defeats the purpose of switching to Proton Pass. With 1P, there is a secret key and then a Master Password, so you never run into this problem. So, it seems like it would make sense to have a separate login method for Proton Pass. Or am I missing something?

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/users/6360081178-golliwog already provides the exact reason why "extra password" is not a solution to this issue. Please fix.

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/users/6360081178-golliwog already provides the exact reason why "extra password" is not a solution to this issue. Please fix.

I love the Proton suite, and would really like to use ProtonPass, but having to login to ProtonPass via my Proton account makes that impossible. I'm currently using 1password, and I have a randomy generated password for my Proton account.

If I want to migrate to ProtonPass I have to downgrade the password on my Proton account to a less secure one that I can remember, and that defeats the whole purpose.

We need a totally separate login for our ProtonPass login, instead of logging in via the Proton account.

This request got more than 800 votes and 100 comments. It would be nice, if the Proton team could response to it. Even a negative response is better than nothing.

This topic needs to be solved. I will never use ProtonPass i unless it has its own password.