Strongbox on desktop and mobile. It uses keepass file format to store databases but I prefer the ui.
Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?
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#221Password, it “just works” most of the time, the desktop and mobile UI is nice and polished and it works pretty well on iOS. I’m happy to pay for that. Previously was using LastPass and 1Password is definitely nicer and more polished.
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#23I find KeePassX plus Owncloud to be perfect for my needs. I have all my passwords with me and even if there are some synchronisation issues every once in a while, it works out sufficiently well and is very low-maintenance.
Give KeePassXC and the browser extension a try.
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#24I'm all in on Bitwarden at this point. It's the place where I keep all my credit cards, secure notes and about a 500 logins. A vast majority of these logins have passwords generated by Bitwarden itself.
I'm confident even if BW goes down I can still recover my data since the vault works offline too. While the browser extension could use some UX work the mobile apps have been top-notch and sharing passwords with my spouse has been a bliss.
I bought myself a dedicated server earlier in December and will be migrating to Vaultwarden pretty pretty soon.
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#25If you have a Mac use keychain. I never understood why Mac users use external tools.. I mean really? Why? Perhaps if you manage a team at work ok.. but single user subscriptions? For Linux and windows i would use keepassx.
There are several issues with the macOS/iOS Keychain:
- it does not understand that some accounts are used on multiple domains, does not allow you to modify domains, or have more than one. For example something like microsoft.com, live.com, microsoftpassword.com. I believe maybe microsoft cleaned it up and use now only one domain, but websites like that still exist.
- multiple accounts for the same website, just need to have a title to name them. Say you have 2 AWS account and each has a user root. How would you identify them?
- password sharing is a big issue as well, within the family.
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#26KeepassXC for password management and Syncthing for syncing across devices. Everything I'd available offline and syncs on network availability. Working well for years now.
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#27Default macOS/iOS password manager. Chrome doesn't use it, but everything else does.
Yes I’ve moved to this from Dashlane, it’s much better and integrates flawlessly with all my devices. Why do I need another piece of software when the MacOS default is so good?
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?
#28If you have a Mac use keychain. I never understood why Mac users use external tools.. I mean really? Why? Perhaps if you manage a team at work ok.. but single user subscriptions? For Linux and windows i would use keepassx.
I briefly moved to Keychain from 1Password when they went Electron, but the experience of actually managing credentials is so bad in comparison that the experiment lasted less than three months.
At minimum, Apple needs to make Keychain a standalone app instead of a half-baked settings dialog for it to even be considered an option imo.
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#29I use - and pay for - BitWarden. It does all the things you ask for. With the paid version I can share passwords with my spouse for relatively unimportant things (like Netflix) in a reasonably secure manner. I could self host and run it myself. But I'm not a multi-person team with decades of security engineering experience. So I gladly let someone else take on that burden.
You don't need to be a multi-person team or have a lot of security experience to host Bitwarden. I'm very positive Bitwarden won't get hungry for money looking at their revenue models, but there's always Vaultwarden you can self host. It's pretty popular and secure. I'll be deploying soon for myself.
I'm sure that's true. But when it comes to the think with my bank's passwords - I'd rather trust a team of professionals.
This morning I loaded up the dishwasher, switched it on, and completely forgot to add a cleaning tablet. I don't want the responsibility of forgetting to update a critical patch or misconfiguring an obscure YAML file.
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#30Firefox. It's not perfect especially on Android (I have to manually copy the password instead of it auto-filling) but it's good enough.