# Password history: Delete single password item

**URL:** <https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/password-history-delete-single-password-item/3927>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 26, 2024, 9:47am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/password-history-delete-single-password-item/3927 "2024-08-26T09:47:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Cracks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Cracks](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/Cracks)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 9:47am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/password-history-delete-single-password-item/3927/1 "2024-08-26T09:47:25Z")

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Hi Team,

it will be nice, if you add the possibility to delete a single password item within the password history.

 ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/vaultwarden/original/2X/2/23193a923959772b23e6a159efa6881730a062ed.png)

**Reason for feature request:** A very important password which is used more times on different accounts or devices should not listed in password history for security reasons. On shared accounts, different peoples are able to see over the password history all used passwords in the past. Therefore they are able to use old passwords to try login on other systems / accounts.

The workaround for that issue is actually to delete the entire account entry and create a new one with clean password history. It is a bit more work to create a new one if 2FA has already been configured.

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**Author:** ![BlackDex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/blackdex/32/8_2.png) [@BlackDex](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/BlackDex)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/password-history-delete-single-password-item/3927/2 "2024-08-26T10:22:59Z")

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That is not something this project can do. The clients need to support this.  
This project does not build or maintain those clients.

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**Author:** ![stefan0xC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/vaultwarden.discourse.group/stefan0xc/32/1765_2.png) [@stefan0xC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/stefan0xC)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/password-history-delete-single-password-item/3927/3 "2024-08-26T11:00:35Z")

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You could manually clear the `password_history` field from the `ciphers` table of the vault item:

```sql
UPDATE ciphers SET password_history = NULL WHERE uuid = '<itemId>';

```

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**Author:** ![Cracks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Cracks](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/u/Cracks)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://vaultwarden.discourse.group/t/password-history-delete-single-password-item/3927/4 "2024-08-26T13:03:02Z")

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Hi BlackDex,

okay, thanks for your reply. Than we can close this feature request. Thanks for your great work!