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.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬English
    9·
    2 months ago

    Loss of control of this data would be catastrophic, so I took its security very seriously.

    Ask yourself: “If my current system is unavailable: How screwed am I?”

    If the answer is anything less than “Not screwed at all!”, then it is time for a backup - regardless of what system you’re using or plan to use.

    • wth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Fair comment, although due to the distributed nature of our implementation we are unlikely to lose services. All Vaults are stored locally on all devices.

      Having said that - the copy of the vault on the Mac is backed up with TimeMachine.

      [I’ve been a greybeard sysadmin and use 3,2,1 even at home]