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Ask HN: Does your org use a password keeper?

#1
I work for a large (~10k) organization that obviously interacts with a number of different systems/applications on a daily basis. The average employee likely has 10-20 (hopefully) different sets of credentials that they must maintain and update as necessary - I can only imagine there are a variety of Password, Password1, Password12 combinations in use.

I'm curious if anyone has experience with an enterprise/corporate level password manager. Ideally, it would be tied to the user's AD profile so when they log in to Windows they would just need to enter their master password and it would integrate with the browser to prefill passwords just like 1Password, or BitWarden.

Looking at 1Password's website, it's 7.99 USD per user/month which gets very pricey with 10k users. I'm curious what other folks on HN are using. I appreciate your feedback!

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#3
Not the organization as a whole, but some small teams use them. We use KeePass for most important passwords and API-keys. The master password is a prefix and a part from personalized Yubikeys for each member accessing the store.

A larger org would probably need a manager with extended access management, I am not sure if KeePass has such features yet. I think BitWarden does have an extended AD integration, but I am not sure if it is just to import users initially or if you can use AD authentication to access the key manager itself.

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#5
> gets very pricey with 10k users

With that many users you don't pay the advertised prices. You schedule a call and they make sure you get an affordable offer.

> The average employee likely has 10-20 (hopefully) different sets of credentials that they must maintain and update as necessary

Time for azure, auth0, okta, or some other sso provider to just get rid of the passwords?

Re: Ask HN: Does your org use a password keeper?

#7
We don't have use a password manager for most users, but for those with access to many and varied accounts (like IT and anyone dealing with social media) we use VaultWarden, which is a FOSS re-implementation of BitWarden. We don't do any browser or AD integration though.

Re: Ask HN: Does your org use a password keeper?

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We don't have use a password manager for most users, but for those with access to many and varied accounts (like IT and anyone dealing with social media) we use VaultWarden, which is a FOSS re-implementation of BitWarden. We don't do any browser or AD integration though.

This is great! I didn't know this existed, but it looks like for self-hosting this is a much better solution than BitWarden proper (as it is lighter). This shall go on my synology.
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