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Re: 1Password for Linux beta

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Post by randomsearch » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

murermader wrote: post #205

randomsearch wrote: post #204

Recently tried out every password manager as I was sick of LastPass being glitchy with some websites. I’m using OS X and iOS exclusively, with Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. After trying out 1Password, Dashlane, etc. I returned to LastPass - contrary to most of the reviews I found online, LastPass works much more smoothly with most sites and apps. The integration with iOS is much nicer. I found the gap between LastPass…

How is the iOS integration from LastPass better than from 1Password? I am pretty happy with 1Password, it integrates really nice 'next to' keychain

Sorry, bit misleading there - I meant the iOS LastPass app is better, not the "press here when entering a password" integration.

Re: 1Password for Linux beta

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Post by piaste » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

mapgrep wrote: post #249

piaste wrote: post #96

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Bitwarden only ever decrypts the password database on the client, and the login credentials you send to the server are only a hash of your actual encryption key. In principle, you could store your Bitwarden database on a public torrent at no risk to your security :) So, if you do trust the Bitwarden software in the first place, self-hosting it shouldn't be any more dangerous than using the managed service, because th…

Well that’s the thing. If I’m content to trust the client side hashing or encryption on the secrets why bother setting up my own server? Conversely, if there are nefarious things that can happen on the server to compromise the data without me knowing about it, then I trust neither myself (because I’d be a bad sysadmin) nor a third party (not knowing what they’re up to). Or if I do trust a third party just use 1Passwo…

> If I’m content to trust the client side hashing or encryption on the secrets why bother setting up my own server?

Not that much, given that basic accounts are free. I guess that in addition to the building from source option, self-hosted Bitwarden (or at least Bitwarden-rs) includes all enterprise features for free.

The two most useful ones are probably sharing selected passwords with other users / groups, and attaching encrypted files to logins.

I wouldn't bother setting up a server and domain solely for it, but if you already have a personal webserver with a reliable backup strategy, since Bitwarden_rs barely uses any resources and is super easy to install, you might as well throw it in.

That's my case - I was already running a personal Nextcloud and Fediverse instance, so adding Bitwarden was like five lines of docker-compose and four of Caddyfile.

Re: 1Password for Linux beta

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Post by floatboth » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #233

floatboth wrote: post #223

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Electron has nothing to do with ChromeOS. In fact ChromeOS could not run Electron apps until the very recent "Linux app support" that's still not available on all devices AFAIK. (Or developer mode hacks + awkward ways of exposing GUI to Chrome that don't support GPU acceleration.)

Another one that didn't get the message that shipping Chrome as application runtime, with Chrome specific APIs, not available as Web standards, is hardly any different than turning the Web into ChromeOS.

Your post above reads like an incorrect factual statement, not vague message.

Either way, Electron's APIs for using native parts of the app from the web part are purely Electron's and DO NOT exist in other Chromium based products.

Re: 1Password for Linux beta

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Post by politelemon » Sun, Nov 01, 2020, 7:33 PM UTC

eightails wrote: post #155

mooman219 wrote: post #91

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+1 on 1Password's dedication to fixing issues. I had an obscure field selection issue on their web view and pinged the support email. It was fixed a few days later and they updated me on it. I switched to 1Password from KeePass after 5 or so years because I just got tired of maintaining the data locally and keeping it in sync on my devices that I need the passwords on. I just backup the 1Password database locally now…

Is there any reason not to host a Keepass database on any generic cloud service? That's what I'm doing at the moment. I've never encountered any sync issues or conflicts, and take backups every now and then in case that happens.

No reason, yours is the best option IMO. You have a secure container, with a sync service of your choice. It's more transferable so you can easily migrate if you want to.