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In the latest episode of "they will always sell you out" - they sold you out! Who would've thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can't exist without "leeching" off of Bitwarden.

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[–] palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

No, KeePass. Fully open source, no cloud involved in any way, unless you want something to sync your data (the server only ever sees your encrypted database - all encryption and decryption is done locally). You can also host your own sync server using any of a variety of different protocols.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

@palmtrees2309@lemmy.world

Yep. Seconding this!

KeePass + Syncthing is the best.

Back up the database(s) regularly. (Syncthing can also retain x number of versions and things like that, but also do your own 3-2-1 backups.)

You can use something as simple as a Pi, or an old laptop, or even an old phone if you get creative, as an always-on syncthing server to keep them synchronized. KeePassXC even has a fancy integration with Firefox, so all you gotta do is unlock your database and click autofill on websites.

[–] eli@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yup, been doing this combo for 5-6 years now.

I use KeePassXC on desktop and KeePassDX on Android. No issues whatsoever.

I do have a NAS so that's my "always on" device for Syncthing. Everything syncs up within like 10-15 seconds when a device connects.

I also use a key file as a pseudo 2FA that I keep on a flash drive, so you'd need my master password and my key file to unlock the database.

[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I use KeePass + KeeAnywhere. KeeAnywhere will sync with a wide variety of cloud storage providers. Or your own S3 data bucket server (can be self hosted or on Amazon), if you prefer. Does pretty much the same thing though with versioning. Auto filling in Firefox is done with KeePassHttp-connector on the Firefox side and the KeePassHTTP plugin in KeePass. Similar to what you describe.

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Going to need to work on migrating

[–] palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Ok thanks for the heads up

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I hate to break the news but the issue with Bitwarden is that the client sucks total ass, and there are no drop in 3rd party replacements for the browser plugin.

Been running Vaultwarden for a while now and even though the sync implementation is nice and clean, it's just not worth the end user experience.

This is really dumb when compared to literally every other password manager, open source and enterprise which does a much better job of actually being a password manager and not a glorified encrypted text file.

I'm eventually going to switch back to KeePassXC and just suggest setting a master password with Firefox's builtin password manager for everyone else who just wants a painless user experience and not have to deal with syncing vaults.