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Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by jacurtis »

swozey wrote: post #16

1passwordx nowadays is actually better than my 1password OSX experience. You should try it. I'm slowly moving myself off of OSX over to manjaro and I was shocked at how good 1px worked. It's more "the full app" than it is a "mini mini" like I assumed it'd be, but admittedly I haven't used it for a full 8 hour work day yet so maybe I'll have complaints in a few months. I cannot wait to finally get off of 1password com…

Wanted to bump this. I used 1Password for years on Mac. It is truly amazing.

I now use Linux about 60% of the time, and was worried about needing to switch password managers. But I was happy to learn that I can mostly rely on 1PasswordX in firefox on Linux. It is really good.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by LinuxBender »

unfunco wrote: post #25
imran3740 wrote: post #9

I use pass[0], which is essentially just a wrapper on top of Git and GPG. All your secrets are stored in text files that are then encrypted by your GPG key, which is then tracked in a Git repo that you can store anywhere. I use the PassFF extension[1] for Firefox, and Password Store for Android[2]. There are plenty of pass-compatible clients for all platforms and extensions for pass on the first site. If I need to ge…

I originally used pass too and it's excellent, there's gopass too which is an improvement on pass and works well for teams. https://www.gopass.pw

Does this store in a format that can be pushed to any git repo? It isn't clear from the docs, or maybe I missed it.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by wtmt »

yingw787 wrote: post #37

I use Bitwarden on Linux, macOS, and iOS. It works fine; you may need to sync by clicking a button, and I use AppImages on Linux and I think I need to manually download updated images, but otherwise it's free and open source, the pricing reflects hosting and development costs. I think Bitwarden also supports 2FA. I tried 1Password and switched halfway to Bitwarden; I think there's a quant firm that reviewed password…

Bitwarden has a free tier in its hosted version. And even the hosted version with a paid subscription is very cheap compared to 1Password. Like 1/5th the cost or lower, depending on the plan.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by dhruvkar »

vinceguidry wrote: post #45
dhruvkar wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Bitwarden. Free for teams of 2 (perfect for my wife & me) and has a linux app. Runs great on my thinkpad running pop_os!

Curious, how did you come to the decision to run pop_os on non-System76 hardware? I've found pop_os and ubuntu similar enough that they've proven interchangeable. And how is the experience?

Actually I haven't used plain Ubuntu since 14.04, so can't credibly say how close they are now.

For 16-18 I used Lubuntu. This required a bunch of little customizations and 3rd party apps to get it close to OSX (the standard for me).

Pop_os didnt require me writing scripts to get the touchbar or brighness keys to work. Plus, since it was bundled with nvidia drivers, it was by far the most seamless install experience. The defaults fit my workflow better than Lubuntu at a minimal cost. It's very slick without taking away functionality.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by wtmt »

igorstellar wrote: post #47

Bitwarden on Amazon Lightsail server. It costs $3.50/mo to self-host which is very competitive comparing to paid password managers. I use bitwarden_rs[0] server written in Rust which is much lighter implementation you can run on cheapest 512mb instance. Official bitwarden[1] server is using docker and mssql which requires a lot of RAM. You can run it on Linux through Firefox extension as well as on any operating syst…

Have you tracked or checked how well bitwarden_rs keeps up with mainline Bitwarden on changes and fixes?

I’m usually concerned about these forks getting way behind or getting abandoned after sometime. At least mainline Bitwarden has paid subscription tiers to support ongoing development and maintenance, which may provide some predictable income for that.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by imran3740 »

a_paddy wrote: post #35
imran3740 wrote: post #9

I use pass[0], which is essentially just a wrapper on top of Git and GPG. All your secrets are stored in text files that are then encrypted by your GPG key, which is then tracked in a Git repo that you can store anywhere. I use the PassFF extension[1] for Firefox, and Password Store for Android[2]. There are plenty of pass-compatible clients for all platforms and extensions for pass on the first site. If I need to ge…

Plus as it's based on the tried and trusted GPG, it can be secured with a hardware token like a Yubikey

I actually do this with the subkeys I put on my Yubikey, and thanks to the NFC capability, I can use it on Android.

I've been wanting to switch to a Yubikey with USB-C, since both my laptop and phone have that port and I don't have to rely on NFC, but this has been working fine so I can't really justify the cost.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by anderspitman »

dmacvicar wrote: post #23

KeepassXC ( https://keepassxc.org ) combined with: * It's browser plugin ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keepassxc-browser/ ) * Syncthing ( https://syncthing.net/ ) to synchronize across devices and mobile * Keepass2Android Offline for Mobile access ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi... ) Then the experience is close to Lastpass but only using opensource components.

This is pretty much what I do. I ran into issues getting the browser autofill stuff to work so I've been copying passwords manually, but it's still better than typing even if I could somehow memorize them all.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by imran3740 »

LinuxBender wrote: post #52
unfunco wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I originally used pass too and it's excellent, there's gopass too which is an improvement on pass and works well for teams. https://www.gopass.pw

Does this store in a format that can be pushed to any git repo? It isn't clear from the docs, or maybe I missed it.

It's essentially encrypted text, which Git handles just fine.

Re: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?

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Post by towb »

I used Enpass for a long time but it's just not good. It was, got a big update that made it worse, I waited a long while for it to get better but nothing happened so I decided to move on. This is when I found out that there was no way to export passwords from Enpass in the latest version, so I had to do it manually. Not cool.
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