Brain-based management is getting too exhausting, and isn’t even fully possible with a larger quantity of online accounts.
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Bitwarden
To further this, if you actually move over to any password manager please regenerate all of your duplicate passwords with something 20+ characters. It’s almost pointless to have a PW Manager if you’re using the same weak password everywhere.
Make a new strong password for your master password too; I’d recommend a phrase of four moderately long words like “BattleshipMonitorPaintingPrinter” and perhaps a little postit note doodle drawing to remember it until it’s hammered home.
Alternatively, writing down the master password somewhere secure, like in a safe, would also be good if you have to pass on important accounts to descendants.
That’s my reason for wanting to switch to a password manager. Everything gets some long random string that would be insane to type anyway. Or using passkeys, if supported, though I’ll have to research how that works.
My biggest problem is backups. I like the method of Aegis authenticator. It just stores some number of past (encrypted) databases. Each change is a new file. This way rsync takes care of both backups and version control. If I accidentally rsync a corrupted file, it doesn’t matter much. And I can verify them with Rhash, just like all files that don’t change (like photos).
Keepassxc/keepassdx, synced with syncthings/basicsync.
Using a headscale/tailscale setup so things stay synced even when i am not home.
nice try hax0r
A few years ago I set up KeepassXC using Syncthing temporarily to sync the database across all my devices. I fully expected to have to move to Nextcloud for database file management.
The KeepassXC / Syncthing combination has worked so well that I have no reason to change it. The databases are seamlessly synced across all devices (including my phone) without requiring any attention from me. Database issues due to multiple device use are almost nonexistent.
One note: For me Syncthing works much better with multiple devices using a star topology. When I initially set up a mesh configuration I had regular file sync issues. With a star topology they are very rare.
What do you use on a phone?
Syncthing-fork from Fdroid.
There were some repository ownership questions a few months back that were ironed out. In addition, Fdroid vets apps far better than Google ever has so I’m comfortable with the app’s security.
Oh, sorry, I meant the password manager. There’s multiple KDBX compatible apps.
KeePass2Android. Recommended by KeypassXC.
BitWarden and a self hosted VaultWarden
Fun part of that sollution is that you only need one app.
Remember the password to my email. Create account on site. Log in and remain logged in. When eventually logged out click forgot password. Log into email and click reset link.
keepassxc
Keepass2
Have this as my backup just in case bitwarden goes somewhere. I tried to run it as my daily but, it just doesn’t feel nice for some reason.
Vaultwarden - self hosted bitwarden server that any bitwarden clients can connect to.
Idk if this is the right choice but I write them down on a piece of paper and store that paper in my locked fireproof safe.
Not very user friendly, but not wrong either
Definitely the most secure!
iOS password manager.
I moved away from Bitwarden because they removing values from their motto and some other shady stuff. I chose to go with AliasVault, it has a pretty nice alias email feature.
1Password family account with spouse, kids, and my parents. Vault management, ease of sharing, and remote management for my parents is nice, along with multiplatform for everything important, and the price feels quite reasonable at $1/user/month. No major security incidents ever, and I was pleased by their core service design whitepaper that I read many years ago. But as they’ve become increasingly corporate over the past several years I’ve felt like they care less and less about individual users, and the CEO’s recent pledge to Omarchy really pissed me off. So it’s been a great service for me but I don’t recommend it for new users unless they like nazis. I pay for a year at a time so I haven’t scrambled to migrate my family to a new solution quickly, but it sounds like Vaultwarden is most likely the way to go next.
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Seconding Bitwarden, have been with it since my previous one (Lastpass? I forget, it was red) moved most of the good functionality behind a paywall many years ago. 11/10 I usually pay for the subscription, I like their product and want them to have a little walkin’ around money. But currently on the free tier which is perfectly fine (2 devices when I used pro for 3, but I hardly use my laptop.
