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Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?

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Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?

#21

Been a Dashlane user for three years and would highly recommend it.

Finally! Someone besides me here who would recommend Dashlane. For some reason, it is always missing from these threads on HN.

Been a user for 3-4 years now, and would definitely recommend it.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?

#24
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Bitwarden. Personally, I use KeePass with Syncthing but pay for a Bitwarden Family account for my spouse and family members. I migrated from LastPass, to Enpass, and finally to KeePass. Bitwarden basically checks all the boxes for me, but I prefer to control my own data without having to run and maintain the Bitwarden server for the rest.

Bitwarden also has an option to install it on your own server

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?

#26

I would prefer LastPass

Last pass MUST be avoided. It is closed sourced and has been exposed to hacks before

I mean open source ftw but it being closed source doesn't mean you should avoid it. What hacks I've heard nothing of the sort

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?

#27

I don't trust cloud based password stores. So I use pass which uses gpg encryption for your passwords. https://www.passwordstore.org GitHub has a good tutorial on generating your own gpg key: https://help.github.com/en/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key Using this you can encrypt your files. I store my gpg files in on a git forge. This way, I load my gpg key, clone the repo into ~/.password-store and voila! I can use…

I wish I had your friends and family’s comfort with using GPG keys.

Re: Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend to friends and family?

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last pass MUST be avoided. It is closed sourced and has been exposed to hacks before

I mean open source ftw but it being closed source doesn't mean you should avoid it. What hacks I've heard nothing of the sort

This - https://www.darknet.org.uk/2017/03/lastpass-chrome-extension...

Although, they weren't completely hacked it seems. They were fixing a major vulnerability.

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