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I'm going to move away from lastpass because the user experience is pretty fucking shit. I was going to look at 1pass as I use it a lot at work and so know it. However I have heard a lot of praise for BitWarden and VaultWarden on here and so probably going to try them out first.

My questions are to those of you who self-host, firstly: why?

And how do you mitigate the risk of your internet going down at home and blocking your access while away?

BitWarden's paid tier is only $10 a year which I'm happy to pay to support a decent service, but im curious about the benefits of the above. I already run syncthing on a pi so adding a password manager wouldn't need any additional hardware.

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[–] MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I've used cloud based services for password managers for work and "self host" my personal stuff. I barely consider it self hosting since I use Keepass and on every machine it's configured to keep a local cached copy of the database but primarily to pull from the database file on my in-home NAS.

Two issues I've had:

Logging into an account on a device currently not on my home network is brutal. I often resort to simply viewing the needed password and painstakingly type it in (and I run with loooooong passwords)

If I add or change a password on a desktop and don't sync my phone before I leave, I get locked out of accounts. Two years rocking this setup it's happened three times, twice I just said meh I don't really need to do this now, a third time I went through account recovery and set a new password from my phone.

Minor complaint:

Sometimes Keepass2Android gets stuck trying to open the remote database and I have to let it sit and timeout (5 minutes!!!) which gets really annoying but happens very infrequently which is why I say just minor complaint

All in all, I find the inconvenience of doing the personal setup so low that to me even a $10 annual subscription is not worth it

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Appreciate your perspective thanks for sharing.

[–] NonDollarCurrency@monero.town 1 points 1 week ago

The way I get around the syncing issue is to set my syncthing to sync when my phone is charging so it's very unlikely to not be in sync, or if I change a password on the PC I'll plug my phone into a USB and it syncs straight away.

I also use KeepassDX on Android and never have those issues.

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

I run a similar setup, but with syncthing as the syncing system. Every time I connect the phone to the charger it just syncs the database and I can even sync it outside the home network. Works like a charm. Worst case you get a sync conflict which is easy to solve.

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[–] korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why not a piece of hardware instead of self hosting, cloud hosting, etc?

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Self-hosting removes the risk of somebody compromising Bitwarden’s servers and adding malicious javascript to send off your master password to a bad actor instead of just processing it locally like it’s designed to.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the chances of such a breach are vanishingly small. I wonder if I'm right though.

I think anyone capable of pulling off such a feat is not interested in my data, and probably more likely looking for government employee access etc..

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Premium features for free. There are no benefits in relying on a third-party

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