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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by k8sToGo »

Caligatio wrote: post #49
k8sToGo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is funny, because to me "only a file you have to sync (and backup)" sounds more like an advantage than setting up an entire server environment just so you can access your passwords.

If you're the sole user, it's probably not worth self-hosting {Bit,Vault}warden. However, the ability to share passwords and, optionally, TOTP codes is super helpful. My wife and I both used KeePass before and the combination of syncing the DB across devices and inability to share (a subset of) passwords was a killer. {Bit,Vault}warden} both now support emergency access which will be useful if it's ever needed

Yes, I agree. For multiple users, I would definitely switch.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by toyg »

amq wrote: post #46

I wish google would provide a basic password manager as part of their workspace. It's 2022 and passwords are more painful than ever. In an ideal world we would have SSO everywhere, but it's just not happening.

They are slowly extending the Chrome password manager to be a more general-purpose password store, at least on Android. But tbh I think Google already knows my secrets more than they should, handing them all passwords would be a step too far for me.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by jillesvangurp »

Tajnymag wrote: post #16
poglet wrote: 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?

If you use Keeweb, you can put the database file on a shared drive and open it from there. I set that up for some shared passwords in our company with Google Drive.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by toyg »

timvisee wrote: post #39

Isn't $5 per month per user (enterprise) quite expensive for a glorified key-value store?

> a glorified key-value store?

That's what LastPass is, which is why they were holed multiple times. Turns out it's quite hard to implement a secure key-value store.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by eitland »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #7
skrebbel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :-)

> 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 :-) I have seen this occasionally but it is fairly random and unreliable. And then sometimes it pops up for stuff I clearly don't want to save, like OTP.

Works most of the time on my Firefox on Windows and Linux I think.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by zalebz »

lordnacho wrote: post #35
skrebbel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I wouldn't say it was extremely simple but I managed to move our company from LastPass to Bitwarden a few months ago. There is definitely an export & import process available. I did have to do some minor CSV cleanup on what LP generated though. Additionally, I purged and repeated the import process a few times once I familiarized myself with how "Collections" and company-wide sharing works in BW. But in the end it was certainly worth it despite the effort.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by cies »

wirelesspotat wrote: post #63
vgalin wrote: 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 current and previous company both use 1password. I use Bitwarden personally. I like them both - 1password has better UX but I prefer supporting open source for personal use.

> I prefer supporting open source for personal use.

Same here. Opensource also adds to security in this case.

Also BitWarden's server has no knowledge of your phrase, and hence cannot, never ever, read your data. Forgetting your phrase means you lose your wallet. 1Pass and competitors do not have such guarantee, and allow one to retrieve access to the wallet by other means.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by cudder »

vgalin wrote: 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.

We're on the process of migrating from LastPass to self-hosted Psono[0]. I've not yet used Psono enough to say anything except that it seems better than LastPass, but that's not a hard goal to reach. With LastPass the whole UI/UX seemed awfully complex and cluttered and devoid of many handy QoL features like copying a password straight to clipboard. Their Chrome extension is also a true heavyweight[1].

[0]: https://psono.com/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172569

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by schoolornot »

timvisee wrote: post #39

Isn't $5 per month per user (enterprise) quite expensive for a glorified key-value store?

Yes, it is. Then again you'd be shocked at how much companies pay for SAAS apps today. I like to think you use FOSS when you're small b/c you can't afford the good stuff, then you get so big you want to switch back to FOSS b/c so many companies are taking you for a ride.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Post by k8sToGo »

dathinab wrote: post #44
k8sToGo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is funny, because to me "only a file you have to sync (and backup)" sounds more like an advantage than setting up an entire server environment just so you can access your passwords.

I guess it depends if you sync you passwords across multiple devices, and also potentially add new passwords on multiple devices. I personally don't. Sure I have a password manager on my phone, but it only gets a small subset of my passwords anyway. Similar any password I add on my phone is very likely to be somewhat irrelevant mostly throwaway.

I use Nextcloud to sync to my Android. On iOS it was more annoying.
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