Overview:


This article includes instructions on how to manage shared folders in LastPass.


  • In your LastPass Vault, click Sharing Center in the left menu.

  • Hover over your desired shared folder and click Manage.

  • In the "Invite Users or Groups" field, enter the name of each user or group you want to invite, and select each when populated. Otherwise, you can invite other users outside of your Enterprise account with whom to share your folder (if a policy does not restrict you from doing so).

  • If desired, enable the Send Email checkbox to inform the selected users or groups via email that they are invited to access your shared folder.
  • Under Permissions, you can enable the checkbox(es) of the access you want to set for your selected users or groups.
  • Once selected, click Invite, and the invited users and groups are added to the list of approved users.
  • Once the users are added, you can view the "Invite Accepted" column in the right navigation to track when the user or group of users accepts your invitation via the Sharing Center within their own account.
  • Click Save when finished.


Once you have assigned your user and group memberships to your shared folder, you can grant access permissions for each.

  • In your LastPass Vault, click Manage on your desired shared folder.
  • In the right navigation of the "Memberships" window, use the "Read Only", "Administrator", and "Hide Passwords" columns to make changes to the appropriate permissions for each user or group:
    • Read-only prohibits the user or group from adding/removing items to/from a shared folder. It also prevents them from saving any updated username, password or Secure Note information to the folder. However, we cannot block the update from transpiring at the Site level. This option could, therefore, result in a lockout by the rest of the team. It is our recommendation that you articulate a "no update" policy outside of LastPass (if this is, in fact, your goal) and that you do not select "Read Only" as the permission option. If the user still updates the credentials, then the change will save back to LastPass, and the event will be captured in the reports so that you are able to track it back to the owner.
    • Administrator will grant the user equal admin rights over the shared folder including: adding and removing users and restricting access to individual Sites in the folder.
    • Hide Passwords prohibits the user from seeing the credentials. They will be able to utilize the tools via Autofill or Autologin, but they will be unable to see the actual credentials.
  • Once you have made your desired selections, click Save and the users and/or groups will be granted the permissions that you designated.