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Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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I just looked at the requirements to host your own Bitwarden server. Why does a password manager need 2GB of ram (4GB recommended) and 25GB[1] of storage? That seems quite excessive, how much data and traffic does this thing need to handle for me plus family members?

[1] https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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I just looked at the requirements to host your own Bitwarden server. Why does a password manager need 2GB of ram (4GB recommended) and 25GB[1] of storage? That seems quite excessive, how much data and traffic does this thing need to handle for me plus family members? [1] https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

Because it uses Docker and that is what Docker requires.

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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I just looked at the requirements to host your own Bitwarden server. Why does a password manager need 2GB of ram (4GB recommended) and 25GB[1] of storage? That seems quite excessive, how much data and traffic does this thing need to handle for me plus family members? [1] https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

Check out Vaultwarden instead - https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden.

It is written in Rust and is much lighter on resource requirements.

  CONTAINER ID   NAME        CPU %     MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %     NET I/O           BLOCK I/O         PIDS
  ecce485b8b3a   bitwarden   0.06%     46.58MiB / 1.937GiB   2.35%     1.63MB / 28.1MB   17.5MB / 81.9kB   11

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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Is 2FA still hidden behind the paywall? While bitwarden does this they are doing a major disservice to the averge (unpaid) user. Edit: thanks, sounds like 2fa is now free.

Isn’t it like $10 per year for a premium account?

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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I just looked at the requirements to host your own Bitwarden server. Why does a password manager need 2GB of ram (4GB recommended) and 25GB[1] of storage? That seems quite excessive, how much data and traffic does this thing need to handle for me plus family members? [1] https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

It includes a MS SQL server among other things, so for serving single digit users its gonna be heavy. Check out Vaultwarden as an alternative for small scale self-hosting.

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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Is 2FA still hidden behind the paywall? While bitwarden does this they are doing a major disservice to the averge (unpaid) user. Edit: thanks, sounds like 2fa is now free.

The free plan supports the following types of 2FA: "Email, Authentication App"

Upgrading to the Premium Account ($10/yr) gets you additional options: "YubiKey, FIDO2, Duo, Email, Authentication app"

Source: https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

Re: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

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I just looked at the requirements to host your own Bitwarden server. Why does a password manager need 2GB of ram (4GB recommended) and 25GB[1] of storage? That seems quite excessive, how much data and traffic does this thing need to handle for me plus family members? [1] https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

Because it uses Docker and that is what Docker requires.

No, it's because it uses _several_ docker containers and runs mssql.
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