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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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I’ve been trying to switch from KeePass to Bitwarden so that my partner and I can share some passwords but KeePass just works, so it’s been hard to change over.

If I may ask, how do you share passwords when using KeePass?

I am not poglet, but I use Strongbox to manage Keepass databases in iOS and macOS and share it via iCloud Drive.

I was using KeepassXC, but I liked the the TOTP backup/share with partner functionality and iOS strongbox app.

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.

> The most trusted open source password manager for business

OP here; this hype bothered me, but to avoid being accused of editorialising the target link, I try to include any strap line in full in the HN link description field.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

I've found the multi device syncing easier and the integration with iOS works very well.

This was my reason to go away from KeePass(XC) with NextCloud for sync. I would inevitably run into a sync issues (also due to the need for NextCloud to be always up of course, also self-hosted) and I never found a nice way to integrate KeePassXC into android or iOS, Bitwarden just works, on any OS (allthough what I find annoying is that you have to sync the vault before you get new stuff by going into the app and syncing, just using it does not update it, so frequently I find myself missing passwords on iOS and then I need to manual sync first). Oh, and there is an issues with using it in private tabs on FireFox which has existed since I started using it.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been trying to switch from KeePass to Bitwarden so that my partner and I can share some passwords but KeePass just works, so it’s been hard to change over.

If I may ask, how do you share passwords when using KeePass?

She just askes me to get the password for her. I have chosen to store some of her rarely used account passwords to save her from having to go through the password reset process every time she wants to access the accounts.

I attempted to set her up with her own database but it's difficult to manage accounts that we both share in two separate databases.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I may ask, how do you share passwords when using KeePass?

I am not poglet, but I use Strongbox to manage Keepass databases in iOS and macOS and share it via iCloud Drive. I was using KeepassXC, but I liked the the TOTP backup/share with partner functionality and iOS strongbox app.

Thanks I will give this a go.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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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.

Considering it costs a fifth of 1Password, and has had an almost-fully-featured free option since early days, I suspect that Premium income is not their main source of funds. Maybe they got investment to survive while they built a business-friendly product. Maybe they consult for businesses running their own servers.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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

Really? Its less than the cost of a pint. Not exactly expensive considering the benefits. Sure it could be free, but its not expensive.

Depend on your platform. MacOS/iOS/iPadOS come with a more than decent integrated password manager for free. It almost never fail to identify password field and work both for web site and compatible applications.

The paying part is when you want to sync key-chain between device and require an iCloud subscription which start at $0,99 and bundle other features.

While I would never trust a "free service" (fremium backed with pro account/bundling is still ok AFAIC), it's still hard to consider $4/month for a syncing service cheap. It's literally the price of a cheap VPS service!

PS: From another angle if security is really your priority maybe $4 is not expensive enough. Password manager don't protect you from an hostile OS vendor and on top of that you now have to trust another entity. High levels of security require a global approach and paying more for a Password manager might provide a false sense of security.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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For self-host - is it better than KeePass?

Depends, self hosting the main project will require a Microsoft SQL Server instance amongst other things which ends up with a quite heavy endeavour. There's an alternative implementation of the server API called Vaultwarden that works nicely with all the frontends but is unofficial. If Keepass works for you, you're likely not gaining much from switching. They're both just password managers at heart.

Vaultwarden is pretty nice. I had it set up in minutes and it works perfectly.
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