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

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Post by thiht » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

mamcx wrote: post #76

princevegeta89 wrote: post #24

I'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 sp…

How good is for iOS/OSX? I use enpass and if I don't open it all the time (and retype the master pwd!) then it not catch most logins and now I have a lot of that into the Apple system instead. I wonder which one is truly transparent (I work mostly on Mac/iOS but still need other platforms)

I’ve been using Bitwarden for 2 years now, and I feel like completion has continuously improved. It uses the built-in auto fill feature on iOS and it works pretty well. Whenever I see a login form, I see the auto fill toolbar appear. I click on it, unlock Bitwarden with FaceID and it auto fills fine.

I had quite a few apps in the beginning where I needed to manually open BW to copy paste my username/password, but it doesn’t seem like it occurs to me anymore.

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

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Post by frankyy » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:00 PM UTC

Keepassx

I have copy of keepass dbs on phone, private notebook and employer notebook. Once a month I doing backups, and I am updating these databases. Fresh passwords, for current month I'm holding unencrypted in email draft/todo list/google keep till full backup procedure.

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

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Post by kqr2 » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:38 PM UTC

Any thoughts on Bruce Schneier's Password Safe?

https://www.schneier.com/academic/passsafe/

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

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Post by lormayna » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

For me mobile and multidevice is a thing. No anything better than Bitwarden.

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

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Post by zeeZ » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

princevegeta89 wrote: post #24

I'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 sp…

Note that file attachments are not stored in the json file that contains the vault, so if you care about those you still have to back them up some other way.

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

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Post by mt_ » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:42 PM UTC

joshbaptiste wrote: post #8

LinuxBender wrote: post #2

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…

ditto.. KeePassXC + contemporary cloud store

I recommend syncthing

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

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Post by below43 » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:45 PM UTC

pentab wrote: post #33

LinuxBender wrote: post #2

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?

Some versions of KeePass support a synchronisation which gets around collisions

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

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Post by alkonaut » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:56 PM UTC

I have a 1Password subscription but I find it too much of a hassle to use. Using the password manager is more cumbersome than resetting the password most of the time. And that obviously makes the password stored in the password manager out of date, making it even less useful.

For many logins I just use some re-used password with a prefix/suffix based on the service/site name, so I can usually get the password right without opening the manager or resetting the password.

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

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Post by jcoletti » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 6:59 PM UTC

All in on Minimalist Password. One of the few macOS-native apps left with enough of the right features (OTP, custom fields, iOS apps) without bloat, and no subscription (syncs via iCloud). The only drawback is no Chrome/Brave/Firefox extension yet (Safari only) but it's on the roadmap for this year I believe.

Edit: I see you didn't specifically mention Mac or Windows, but this one is Apple ecosystem only, currently.

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

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Post by chewz » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

Strongbox protected with Yubikey NFC as 2FA on iPhone and Mac - sync via iCloud..