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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.

1Password with shared vaults and OTP fields works well for this. I understand the idea of putting both factors in one place is odd, but I feel it strikes the right balance between the convenience and security.

> the idea of putting both factors in one place is odd

This is AKA "one factor", right?

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

#112
KeepassXC sync'd with onedrive. I use a certificate key that I only move with USB, and a Yubikey to limit the attack area if someone were to gain access.

Keepass2android works very well. For the longest time I avoided the browser extension since it's a weak spot, and instead relied on auto-type. I finally caved in since most websites nowadays use a UI that asks for the user name first and then the password because reasons. The browser extension is very finicky and doesn't complete half of the time.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes it does, I keep my recovery codes there.

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

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post #9

I 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.

I'm in the same boat. Another great reason to use Bitwarden is the ability for my wife to recover my passwords if something happens to me. We share most things but there are certain semi-important things that only I have the password to. If something happens to me my wife can get access to those semi-important things fairly easily.

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

#117
I have started using pass (https://www.passwordstore.org) since last year and I'm quite happy with it. The main advantage of using pass is the feeling that I've control overy passwords and I also understand the process. If you decided to give it a try, make sure to have a look on available extensions.

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

#119

So all these people are posting with likely their normal accounts and announcing their security posture to the world… feels insecure ironically. I miss having a solution that was locally synced across multi platform.

At least you found a way to feel superior

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

#120

I switched from LastPass to Bitwarden. I'm still not even 1/3 the way through from changing all my passwords and OTP tokens (Obviously I changed bank passwords, etc, right away.)

Have fun changing those passwords. It took me at least three days. Absolutely miserable experience to conclude my 7 year relationship with LastPass.

What?! You can’t import/export between them?

That’s what I did when I left LastPass for 1Password, was fairly straight forward from what I remember.

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