Ask HN: Recommended password manager for personal(non-techie) use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Recommended password manager for personal(non-techie) use?

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Post by whois » Tue, Dec 19, 2017, 6:03 PM UTC

aashu_dwivedi wrote: post #7

I really like Bitwarden, it's opensource, has a clean interface and it's free.

Could you tell me a little bit about Bitwarden? Any glaring cons that you could think of right out of the gate? How is fill on mobile?

I'm really liking it so far (After ~1 minute of research). An open source password manager with a CLI (coming soon https://github.com/bitwarden/cli), what's not to love?!

Re: Ask HN: Recommended password manager for personal(non-techie) use?

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Post by trollsund » Tue, Dec 19, 2017, 8:01 PM UTC

ecesena wrote: post #9

I’m slightly biased here, but I think you shouldn’t distinguish non-techies from yourself. Mostly because you’re secure only if they are secure, and in addition you can learn a lot about their issues if you’re using the same products. Can I ask you what are you using, if anything, and why you’re not ok recommending that? (I’m genuinely interested, I’m working on a pass manager that’s born in a very tech niche and we’…

The reason I distinguish non-techies from myself is that while I know my way around a command line, can compile stuff, debug to some extent etc, they/she can't. The same goes for my parents, and hers, as well as our siblings, uncles, aunties cousins etc. So while I may be ok using some application that requires some configuration and setup, the rest aren't.

Currently I'm not using anything, so it will be a case of eating my own dogfood(so to say). Whatever I'll recommend is the one I'll be using. As to why I'm not using anything - eh, a combination of laziness and faith in my own password rule.

Re: Ask HN: Recommended password manager for personal(non-techie) use?

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Post by trollsund » Tue, Dec 19, 2017, 11:34 PM UTC

auxym wrote: post #8

fuball63 wrote: post #6

I like keepassX, which is cross platform, offline, and simple to use.

Same here, and I put my very much non technical girlfriend on it, too. We keep the database on dropbox and it allows us to access our passwords on any device (Windows, Linux, Android, Web app).

So, how do you handle new devices? Get the Dropbox pass from another device, log in, then load the database in KeePassX?

Re: Ask HN: Recommended password manager for personal(non-techie) use?

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Post by dukeflukem » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 9:22 AM UTC

I use keepass and dump it in Dropbox. I don't think it takes much tech chops. You log into keepass as you would a site then grab the passwords you need.