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Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

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Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

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Post by fdw »

OJFord wrote: post #11
luryus wrote: post #8

I've been developing my own TUI Bitwarden client recently: https://github.com/luryus/wden I need passwords outside of the browser quite frequently (when SSHing to servers and so on), and the official Electron app just feels clunky and heavy to use and keep running constantly in the background. So creating a small and lightweight client optimized for my own usage patterns has been really useful. It may be useful for o…

There's an official CLI though isn't there?

Yes, but it is quite uncomfortable to use, requiring you to get a session key and storing it somewhere. Instead, I've had good experiences with [rbw]. Maybe that would also be interesting for GP.

I've used to rbw for a rofi (and rofi-like frontend): https://github.com/fdw/rofi-rbw/

[rbw]: https://github.com/doy/rbw/

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

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Post by walteweiss »

eternityforest wrote: post #19
walteweiss wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? https://www.passwordstore.org/ As a user of pass for like 4 years, I enjoy reading all those silly threads on password managers doing this and that. Fantastic. And it’s not even an upgrade to use the GUI app here, I can take any often used password of mine with pure Ctrl + R in my terminal, just a second and it’s here, with no need to do extra backups, al…

Nearly all of my need for passwords is web-related. Autofill is incredibly convenient and also an anti-phishing measure, because it won't autofill fake sites, which would give me time to notice something was up. There doesn't seem to be major super popular audited autofill stuff, seems like the ecosystem is mostly smaller projects and the main focus is on the CLI. The remainder of the times I need passwords are mostl…

1. There are plugins and web clients: https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions

2. Of course pass has mobile version, and to my liking it looks and works much better than 1Password that I migrated from. (And to my liking as well Bitwarden looks much worse, if we would ever happen to talk about looks in a password manager, lol. Of course that is highly subjective.)

3. I have shared stored with my work mates. That is different hit repositories that has those text files encrypted with more than one gpg key, and it works so incredibly well. And is free, forever. We manage that with gopass (a fork written in Go), as it’s easier to work with for not-so-techies.

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

#23

Post by Tracnac »

ubermonkey wrote: post #9

I used Bitwarden until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL vault because of something goofy on the Bitwarden side. I'm on enPass now.

Yeah lol, I used Linux until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL PC because of something goofy on a Linux update side. I'm on Windows now. You get the point !?

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

#24

Post by walteweiss »

Narkov wrote: post #20
walteweiss wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? https://www.passwordstore.org/ As a user of pass for like 4 years, I enjoy reading all those silly threads on password managers doing this and that. Fantastic. And it’s not even an upgrade to use the GUI app here, I can take any often used password of mine with pure Ctrl + R in my terminal, just a second and it’s here, with no need to do extra backups, al…

> Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? Bitwarden is entirely open source?! https://github.com/bitwarden/ You aren't even locked in to using them as the data store.

Pass is just text files encrypted with gpg. I needed just one password on one work computer, where I had my gpg key, but not all my passwords. Decrypted the file and that was it.

Honestly, I cannot get the longing to store your passwords with some company that claims it would be free and open source forever. What is free and open source by the way? Their client? What about their server they store your password? (I assume you can sync that to their server, I’m not their customer.)

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

#25

Post by Canada »

walteweiss wrote: post #17
Canada wrote: post #16

Whatever one of these password managers you may use, always remember to regularly export to the cleartext. Keep a 50 megabyte encrypted container around for it. Mount, export, unmount. Whenever you remember to do it, at least every couple of months. Even if it's not always up to date at least you won't be locked out of everything when these situations happen.

Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? https://www.passwordstore.org/ As a user of pass for like 4 years, I enjoy reading all those silly threads on password managers doing this and that. Fantastic. And it’s not even an upgrade to use the GUI app here, I can take any often used password of mine with pure Ctrl + R in my terminal, just a second and it’s here, with no need to do extra backups, al…

I hear you, and you're not wrong, but there's no way I can get regular users to do that.

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

#26

Post by snowstormsun »

walteweiss wrote: post #22
eternityforest wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nearly all of my need for passwords is web-related. Autofill is incredibly convenient and also an anti-phishing measure, because it won't autofill fake sites, which would give me time to notice something was up. There doesn't seem to be major super popular audited autofill stuff, seems like the ecosystem is mostly smaller projects and the main focus is on the CLI. The remainder of the times I need passwords are mostl…

1. There are plugins and web clients: https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions 2. Of course pass has mobile version, and to my liking it looks and works much better than 1Password that I migrated from. (And to my liking as well Bitwarden looks much worse, if we would ever happen to talk about looks in a password manager, lol. Of course that is highly subjective.) 3. I have shared stored with my work mates. That is d…

For Android the mobile app seems to be last updated in 2021 and not compatible with the latest Android version. I would switch to pass immediately if they had both a well maintained and audited browser extension and mobile app.

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

#28

Post by BSDobelix »

Canada wrote: post #16

Whatever one of these password managers you may use, always remember to regularly export to the cleartext. Keep a 50 megabyte encrypted container around for it. Mount, export, unmount. Whenever you remember to do it, at least every couple of months. Even if it's not always up to date at least you won't be locked out of everything when these situations happen.

Look how far we have come...we use a encrypted container to protect a text-file, let's talk about software bloat. What about "gpg --encrypt"?

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

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Post by walteweiss »

snowstormsun wrote: post #26
walteweiss wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. There are plugins and web clients: https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions 2. Of course pass has mobile version, and to my liking it looks and works much better than 1Password that I migrated from. (And to my liking as well Bitwarden looks much worse, if we would ever happen to talk about looks in a password manager, lol. Of course that is highly subjective.) 3. I have shared stored with my work mates. That is d…

For Android the mobile app seems to be last updated in 2021 and not compatible with the latest Android version. I would switch to pass immediately if they had both a well maintained and audited browser extension and mobile app.

I won’t argue on the mobile Android, as I don’t have the latest and greatest Android, but the app is quite good on Android. My iPhone is fine with latest version, though.

I never use web app, so cannot comment on that.

Re: Bitwarden is down with blank screen under Linux OpenSuse

#30

Post by BSDobelix »

Canada wrote: post #25
walteweiss wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not use some better and entirely open solution, like pass? https://www.passwordstore.org/ As a user of pass for like 4 years, I enjoy reading all those silly threads on password managers doing this and that. Fantastic. And it’s not even an upgrade to use the GUI app here, I can take any often used password of mine with pure Ctrl + R in my terminal, just a second and it’s here, with no need to do extra backups, al…

I hear you, and you're not wrong, but there's no way I can get regular users to do that.

And what about KeepassXC?
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