Lastpass. You can set up individual and group sharing, and revoke privileges as needed.
Plus they've been hacked and proven that provided you use safe passphrasing on your part, your data cannot be comprimised.
Ask HN: How do you manage passwords in teams?
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#321Password because life's too short to use LastPass.
There's no good way to share the passwords though... unlogged chat / IM / onetimesecret.com
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#33The ideal is to avoid shared passwords on role accounts -- have individual user accounts with user-selected passwords (and ideally MFA), with the ability to then selectively upgrade access to role accounts.
I generally use 1Password standalone, but it's a bit weak for sharing.
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#34Lastpass. You can set up individual and group sharing, and revoke privileges as needed. Plus they've been hacked and proven that provided you use safe passphrasing on your part, your data cannot be comprimised.
Lastpass Corporate is fantastic.
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#351Password 4 introduces password sharing over iMessage/email and also supports shared password vaults.
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#36I researched this 3 years ago for our startups and couldn't find anything really good that lets me easily and securely share passwords on a need-to-know basis to team members and see who has access to what. Which baffles me because this is a problem that every single startup and small company must have. In the end, we went for https://www.passpack.com/ . They're clearly a small shop but it's been designed from the gr…
I've used passpack as part of a team and the workflow is pretty much spot on.
I have doubts about the security (cryptography in javascript) and the long-term prospects of such a small provider; I worry about them disappearing one day with all my passwords.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is fine for things your organization controls. It isn't possible when dealing with lots of outsourced services. Too few services provide a way to hook into your LDAP or Active Directory.
True, but there still shouldn't be a shared password. Personal accounts for everyone. For the few truly top-level master accounts around, a printed password in the safe will do fine. It should be painful and feel dangerous to use those, because it is.
This isn't possible for every service. For example, our company Twitter account. Twitter doesn't allow any way for individuals to have their own passwords and post to the account. We have a social media team, all of whom need to be able to post to the Twitter account. There is no way around sharing a password for that (and it's just one example of many). It's great to be idealistic and say don't share passwords, but in the real world, it's not always possible.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage passwords in teams?
#38I researched this 3 years ago for our startups and couldn't find anything really good that lets me easily and securely share passwords on a need-to-know basis to team members and see who has access to what. Which baffles me because this is a problem that every single startup and small company must have. In the end, we went for https://www.passpack.com/ . They're clearly a small shop but it's been designed from the gr…
I've used passpack as part of a team and the workflow is pretty much spot on. I have doubts about the security (cryptography in javascript) and the long-term prospects of such a small provider; I worry about them disappearing one day with all my passwords.
They do offer export and backup
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#39You should first ask yourself why you have the shared password at all. Unless there is simply no other way, shared passwords and logins should be avoided for the obvious reasons. Next you need to document the procedure for resetting each of these passwords and accounts when an employee with access is fired or quits. Resetting the password needs to happen the minute the employee leaves the building. As for documenting…
rackspace, for example, doesn't support multiple user accounts.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage passwords in teams?
#40Our product allows you to do this: Team Password Manager (http://teampasswordmanager.com)
It's specially designed for companies that manage lots of passwords across lots of projects. It's a self hosted solution.