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Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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Firefox. It's not perfect especially on Android (I have to manually copy the password instead of it auto-filling) but it's good enough.

have you tried firefox sync? recently gave it a try and on android it works seamlessly. Cross browser integration is an extra step though.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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I still use KeePassXC and sync with cron jobs to Chroot SFTP-Only servers wrapped in a further encrypted file, then conversely use cron to pull the file to devices. I do not personally foresee ever using any of the commercial solutions. I also use this to sync bookmarks. If KeePassXC one day becomes unmaintained I will make my own custom tool, probably using sqlite+openssl+bash. I only log into one semi-sensitive thi…

How do you avoid merge conflicts? Do you only ever edit your KeePassXC files on one machine?

Do you only ever edit your KeePassXC files on one machine?

Most of the time, yes. I can edit the copy and push it back to the SFTP server but that push is manual. I have done that from time to time. I do not share the file with anyone else so I always have confidence which version is up to date. I also have rsnapshot copies of the files.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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KeepassXC for password management and Syncthing for syncing across devices. Everything I'd available offline and syncs on network availability. Working well for years now.

My setup too. However, this year I would like to give a go to self hosted Bitwarden in a RaspberryPi. Just for the satisfaction of it.

Set up yesterday vaultwarden in docker on a rockpro64, it's interesting, but I think it will not do it, as I don't see myself having the ability to keep it on consistently without issues, but I decided to give it a go since I am away from home until the 27th of January without ability to start the sbc if it goes offline, so will be a good way to test reliability

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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I use 1Password. It isn't perfect, but it's quite good. My big goal now is to come up with a better solution for 2FA that works for me and my wife's shared accounts.

Aren’t you using 1Password for generating one time passwords? Or do you deliberately want to keep them out of it?

I haven't been, but I should look into it.

But the shared accounts that are my pain point only offer SMS OTP.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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I memorize all my passwords; they’re different but they all follow a similar format, so it’s not difficult to keep them all straight. There’s a couple variants of the format that I can cycle through when I need to change a password. The format involves the name of the service and a “salt” string, as well as some special character and uppercase/lowercase patterns. It’s quite nice to be able to keep everything in my he…

Are you not worried about compromising all your passwords when one of them is compromised? I assume attackers know they can replace the service name in a leaked password?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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KeepassXC for password management and Syncthing for syncing across devices. Everything I'd available offline and syncs on network availability. Working well for years now.

Syncthing and keepass are a perfect combination, if you also combine them with some kind of offsite automatic backups.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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I just use iCloud. I’m fully in on iCloud now that they support custom domains, even moved my gsuite over this holiday season.

The password manager is enough for me and just works (tm) with all my devices. It even supports 2fa. I used LastPass until the most recent hack. I prefer iClouds keychain so far.

The only problem is using Chrome. There are no extensions for keychain so I have to copy paste the password into Chromes manager if I want to use it. But Safari works for most of my purposes anyways.

I’ve only been on this setup for about a week but so far I love it. It’s so simple and works, I doubt I’ll ever move.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Does it support notes, attachments, etc.? Last time I checked it didn’t seem to, which makes it unviable if you use those features in your password manager.

It does support secure notes but you have to use macs keychain access app.
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