I'm using KeepassXC on desktop, Keepass2Android on mobile and Dropbox for syncing the database and I'm quite happy with it. Bitwarden looks a bit more polished, but are there any other advantages over Keepass?
Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
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Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#62I love bitwarden, and have converted to it. However i just learned about https://passman.cc/
Has anyone used that?
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#63https://www.passwordstore.org/
There’s also https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass with some more features for teams while being compatible with pass.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
how in God's name do you end up with _thousands_ of logins, or even 800? I work in a pretty large MSP in IT with tons of different programs, websites, and clients. Even if I added every single password (which I most surely would not do), I can't imagine there being more than two or three hundred. Conservatively, if every of two hundred clients has thirty passwords, that's still only 600.
Two hundred times thirty is 6000
...well this is awkward.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I do not want my passwords on anybody’s servers. What about your own server? https://help.bitwarden.com/article/install-on-premise/
I run my own server; it works great and is incredibly easy to set up. I would highly recommend people check this software out. It's maybe not as feature rich as other password managers, but it is being actively developed and the few times I had questions I got a quick response from Kyle (the creator).
> I run my own server
If you think it matters where the data is stored (which shouldn't matter because it should be client side encrypted), running your own server would also be a risk. Because you cannot possibly have the same resources to monitor your server/router for suspicious activity...
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#66There are also two Bitwarden-compatible API implementations in Rust[0] and Ruby[1]. Their main advantage, IMO, is them doing away with the requirement of Microsoft SQL Server. [0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs [1] https://github.com/jcs/bitwarden-ruby
This is an AWS Serverless version which can run pretty much completely in Free Tier and you have HA out of the box https://github.com/vvondra/bitwarden-serverless
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#67https://www.passwordstore.org/
Great tool. I use it together with keybase.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I run my own server; it works great and is incredibly easy to set up. I would highly recommend people check this software out. It's maybe not as feature rich as other password managers, but it is being actively developed and the few times I had questions I got a quick response from Kyle (the creator).
> I run my own server If you think it matters where the data is stored (which shouldn't matter because it should be client side encrypted), running your own server would also be a risk. Because you cannot possibly have the same resources to monitor your server/router for suspicious activity...
That's true, but at the same time, there's something to be said for not storing my eggs in the huge basket with everyone else's eggs in it too.
By separating the storage of passwords, we drive down the economic interest in breaking into any one of the individual baskets.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#69I really, really want to be a big fan of Bitwarden. I even used it for the past year and a half. However, the last time HN talked about Bitwarden 7 months ago, I listed some reasons[0] why Bitwarden still fell massively short of 1Password, and I feel that those three points have not been addressed (which I believe impacts the friction/convenience of using Bitwarden). My three points then were: 1. A stand-alone deskto…
Someone else pointed it out but it’s worth repeating that the convenience of having your 2FA on your laptop/desktop might be making a significant security trade off. It’s not really 2FA if it’s on the same device.
Re: Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
#70I really, really want to be a big fan of Bitwarden. I even used it for the past year and a half. However, the last time HN talked about Bitwarden 7 months ago, I listed some reasons[0] why Bitwarden still fell massively short of 1Password, and I feel that those three points have not been addressed (which I believe impacts the friction/convenience of using Bitwarden). My three points then were: 1. A stand-alone deskto…
Er, there IS a desktop client for Linux/windows/iOS. Also a CLI client, FWIW. And an API so you can fork and improve it yourself if you like.
I can't speak to the iOS or Safari versions, but it's just angularjs underneath the FF extension, so I imagine it's quite similar to what I've used. And I quite like the Ux.
And bitwarden has included a 2FA generator for at least a year.