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Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

For self-host, use Vaultwarden [1] [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

If you do self-host, please consider still buying premium from Bitwarden. It's only $10 per year. It's well worth the money and since you're still using the clients, which are still developed Bitwarden, it'll help towards keeping the product alive.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally a happy user of 1Password. Reasons being: - "It just works" for me and my non-tech-family - It's only $50/year Maybe BitWarden is just as good or better. But why take the gamble and migrate everything and everyone, when I have multiple happy 1P users for a low yearly cost?

I wouldn't consider 4 $ per month a low cost for a password manager

Of course it's all relative. $4 is infinitely more than $0. On the other hand, $4 for keeping my most important secrets safe is cheap.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #9
post #5

For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

For self-host, use Vaultwarden [1] [1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

This works very well for me indeed, just add this to you docker-compose.yaml (includes Traefik configuration under labels, for https) and boom:

  bitwarden:
    container_name: bitwarden
    networks:
      - bitwarden
    image: vaultwarden/server:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      SIGNUPS_ALLOWED: "false" # Set to true when making your accounts
      DOMAIN: "https://bw.domain.nl"
      WEBSOCKET_ENABLED: "true"
      #      ADMIN_TOKEN: "SomeTokenForResetPurposes"
    volumes:
      - ./bw-data:/data
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.middlewares.redirect-https.redirectScheme.scheme=https
      - traefik.http.middlewares.redirect-https.redirectScheme.permanent=true
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.rule=Host(`bw.domain.nl`)
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.service=bitwarden-ui
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.rule=Host(`bw.domain.nl`)
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.entrypoints=web
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.middlewares=redirect-https
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.service=bitwarden-ui
      - traefik.http.services.bitwarden-ui.loadbalancer.server.port=80
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.rule=Host(`bw.domain.nl`) && Path(`/notifications/hub`)
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.service=bitwarden-websocket
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.rule=Host(`bw.domain.nl`) && Path(`/notifications/hub`)
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.entrypoints=web
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.middlewares=redirect-https
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.service=bitwarden-websocket
      - traefik.http.services.bitwarden-websocket.loadbalancer.server.port=3012
      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.tls.certresolver=mytlschallenge

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #2

Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI/UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.

I just switched to it from LastPass which, well, has even worse UX in my opinion. It's an extremely low bar to clear and I agree Bitwarden is quirky too, but for me it's still firmly been an upgrade. The only thing I miss is an "add to bitwarden?" dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I've never managed to get it to appear :-)

Is there a simple way to make this transition from LastPass to BW?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #2

Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI/UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.

+1; it's sad that Bitwarden still has worse UX than the internal tool we hacked together in a month 8 years ago.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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> The most trusted open source password manager for business

I expected a blog article with actual feedbacks from companies and data, but ended up on bitwarden.com main page.

Baseless claims can be quite common when it comes to marketing, but I'm genuinely curious: which password manager is used in your workplace, if any?

I've personally never seen in my (for now short) career anything else than Keepass.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #37

> The most trusted open source password manager for business I expected a blog article with actual feedbacks from companies and data, but ended up on bitwarden.com main page. Baseless claims can be quite common when it comes to marketing, but I'm genuinely curious: which password manager is used in your workplace, if any? I've personally never seen in my (for now short) career anything else than Keepass.

My company uses 1Password, in my previous company we used LastPass.
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