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

#101

I 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.

FYI: KeePassX had its last release in 10/2016 and the development has been stopped: https://www.keepassx.org/index.html%3Fp=636.html

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

#103

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…

Sounds like you're very happy with Bitwarden, and confident that if they go down you wouldn't lose access to your secrets. Can I ask why the desire to switch to Vaultwarden? I assume if a significant slice of the userbase did this, the project would suffer—so I'm asking this question genuinely as an avid Bitwarden supporter myself. I hope they don't have to rely solely on VC funding, seems that VCs motives would be p…

I trust bitwarden enough as of now and I don't see any privacy issues with them..... yet!

The main reason I'm switching is for the fun in it and having my data under my complete control. And, to save some money, for me and some friends, for whatever it is worth.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sorry, I meant notes associated with each site/password. Sometimes you want to record not only a site’s username and password, but also some extra data, so having a notes field comes in handy.

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

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post #85

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.

I'm aware of this but thanks for reminding! You can also do a full search for such specific entries like this btw:

>attachments:*

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

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post #76

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 use BitWarden on iOS and it is pretty much same as the default iOS auto fill (which is iCloud?). It uses the system auto fill service and the detecting of password fields to show the auto fill option and filling the password is done by that service, not BitWarden. You can actually use two active auto fill services (say BitWarden and iCloud, I did when I was testing the waters), you will get a prompt to choose which one you want to use.

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

#107

I 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.

FYI: KeePassX had its last release in 10/2016 and the development has been stopped: https://www.keepassx.org/index.html%3Fp=636.html

Sorry, stupid typo, I meant to write KeepPassXC :-|

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

#108

I exclusively self host vault warden behind a VPN and firewall with a custom domain. Changes are automatically managed and deployed through GitHub CI/CD. I have wireguard VPN on all my devices tunneled into my server. I also self-host the VPN since vaultwarden runs on a local Docker intranet. If people are interested, I was going to write a step by step blog. Less technical, but I also get yubikey and duo 2factor pus…

I'd like to mention I would be interested if you ever did a write up
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