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Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by mada360 »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #78
tcfhgj wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Bitwarden, but the lack of auto type on Desktop as well as the limited selection of symbols of the password generator annoys me a lot

Re: lack of autofill (at least for the browser extension), Ctrl-Shfit-L will fill in forms with the top candidate. Not quite autofill, but I find it faster than clicking.

I think not having auto-fill enabled by default is a conscious decision as there was a big fuss how auto-fill can be abused because the input can be captured without submitting. https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...

There is the option to enable auto-fill on page load though https://bitwarden.com/help/article/auto-fill-browser/

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by mada360 »

tcfhgj wrote: post #83
ISO-morphism wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re: lack of autofill (at least for the browser extension), Ctrl-Shfit-L will fill in forms with the top candidate. Not quite autofill, but I find it faster than clicking.

I am speaking for the desktop application which can't auto fill/ auto type in different applications such as Element

This would be really helpful, it's always annoying having to deal with logging into different game clients when they randomly seem to log out

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by drcongo »

jrockway wrote: post #61
santoshalper wrote: post #36

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I've been a happy 1PW user on Windows 10 for a few years, but admit I haven't paid a lot of attention. I haven't noticed any big changes. What are you guys referring to?

People are mad because it used to be self-hosted and free, but now it's mostly something you pay for. I just pay for it and yeah, it's great.

This can't go uncorrected - it was never free and nobody has ever complained that it isn't. I've been giving them money for over a decade.

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by mariusor »

Sanzig wrote: post #39

I use pass. It's a Unix-style password manager created by zx2c4 of Wireguard fame. https://www.passwordstore.org/ Pass uses GPG under the hood for encrypting the password store. I use an OpenPGP smartcard (a Yubikey in my case) to decrypt the password files. I synchronize the store across devices using Git. There are good autofill implementations for Firefox and for Android. When I need a password, the autofill promp…

Pass is not very user friendly. Adding a new device to your tree is a painful experience. Losing your Yubikey or your main gpg key is a painful experience. That being said, there are variants to pass that make multi key trees easier to manage and that's what I'm using.

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

mariusor wrote: post #125
Sanzig wrote: post #39

I use pass. It's a Unix-style password manager created by zx2c4 of Wireguard fame. https://www.passwordstore.org/ Pass uses GPG under the hood for encrypting the password store. I use an OpenPGP smartcard (a Yubikey in my case) to decrypt the password files. I synchronize the store across devices using Git. There are good autofill implementations for Firefox and for Android. When I need a password, the autofill promp…

Pass is not very user friendly. Adding a new device to your tree is a painful experience. Losing your Yubikey or your main gpg key is a painful experience. That being said, there are variants to pass that make multi key trees easier to manage and that's what I'm using.

>Adding a new device to your tree

Are you talking about `git clone`?

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by tcfhgj »

jstx1 wrote: post #85
tcfhgj wrote: post #63

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from KeePass at least: - Upper-case - Lower-case - Digits - Minus - Underline - Special - Brackets

In the Bitwarden password generator you can use uppercase, lowercase letters, digits and !@#$%^&*. Is the lack of brackets or a minus really an issue for you?

there are more special characters, e.g. the following three: =/:

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by pseudalopex »

blikdak wrote: post #117

MacOS with iCloud has shared Keychain 1st party. People should stop thinking this integration is an app, it's a function of your entire online environment including how your OS talks to it. FBG

iCloud Keychain just works with macOS Safari, macOS Chrome, Windows Chrome, and iOS.

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by mariusor »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #126
mariusor wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pass is not very user friendly. Adding a new device to your tree is a painful experience. Losing your Yubikey or your main gpg key is a painful experience. That being said, there are variants to pass that make multi key trees easier to manage and that's what I'm using.

>Adding a new device to your tree Are you talking about `git clone`?

No, I'm talking about having different GPG keys for different devices. I want my passwords on my phone, and on each of my computers. I would prefer to have separate keys for each of them.

Re: Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?

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Post by jdmichal »

taxcoder wrote: post #3

I use Kee-pass. The password generator is good and I'm not aware of any breaches. I don't know how good the browser integration is. Mine is backed up to several locations that I also use it from, I suppose Dropbox would work.

Browser integration for KeePass is non-existent. What I found a few years ago when I tried, is that you install a plugin to KeePass that basically exposes your database to queries from other approved applications. The browser plugin will be one of those applications.
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