Please note that being invited to have emergency access to someone's Vault is not the same as being granted access to their entire LastPass account. That is, if emergency access has been approved by the LastPass account owner, then the result will be that the emergency access user will have a new folder in their Vault containing all of the Vault items of the LastPass account owner.

The process begins with an invitation, then after someone is invited to have access, in order to gain access, they must then request it, at which point the account owner has time to review the access request and deny it if they wish.

The following is a general overview of the steps involved when using emergency access: