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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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> 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.

Keepass

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Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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Is there a good, real comparison of password managers for personal use out there somewhere? I've tried looking in the past and haven't found one that isn't just ads. I've been a long time LastPass user but I'm looking to switch away. Features I need: * Cross-platform (iOS, macOS, Windows) * Easy to use browser plugins (the LastPass safari plugin is awful and non-discoverable via Safari plugin search) * Autofill in br…

1Password checks all these boxes (including nice-to-haves). Longtime satisfied user here.

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.

We use Lastpass; I've never been a big fan of the sharing features. I use Bitwarden for personal use.

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.

Any experience with Secret server from thycotic?

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #81

I see lots of people deriding LastPass... just wondering what exactly Bitwarden or 1Password do better? I find LastPass a bit clunky at times, and once or twice a year it won't actually save a password, but seems ok in general?

I left after they increased the premium price from $12 to $36 within a few years.

I read a few comments from people that this was a classic LogMeIn move where they buy a service, hike the price and squeeze out everything they can before slowly letting the service die off.

I'm happy to pay a reasonable price for services and bitwarden's $10 price (the old LastPass price) shows that's the reasonable price.

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #90

There’s a critical feature missing from Bitwarden that is keeping my on 1Password: - history It’s saved me enough times that I can’t move to a manager that doesn’t record history.

Password history is a feature on Bitwarden. In the browser extension, at the bottom of the entry, you'll have something like: Updated: 18 May 2020, 16:22:44 Password updated: 18 May 2020, 16:22:44 Password history: 1

I stand corrected, thanks!

Re: Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

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post #48
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has asked me lots of times, but just yesterday it didn't for a new account in none less than google.com. Its code to detect when to ask must be... weak, to say the least. So I went on to add a new entry manually. Oh my, the UX to do so is quite bad. There is such low hanging fruit here for improvement, like copying the "UI on a new tab" style that LastPass does... meanwhile Bitwarden insists on doing everything on…

Bitwarden has quite a few of these sad quirks. It doesn't work very well in Firefox's private browsing. Only thing you can do is autofill by right clicking a text field and autofill from there, or the keyboard shortcut. But you cannot unlock it in private browsing. Stateless UI is annoying at best. There's a few times where this has slipped my mind, so I paste a generated password in a new item, and then go to copy t…

Firefox extension need permission to work in private browsing [1], after I gave permission it worked for me.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-brow...

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