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Vaultwarden while allowing family emergency access (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone.

Given some recent.. issues with Bitwarden's leadership, I've been toying with Vaultwarden. It's been great, and supports pretty much everything I need.

I currently locally host the vault, but I'm realizing that this could cause problems for my family if something were to happen to me. While not technologically inept, if my server at home crashed they would have no idea how to access it, and they would lose all of the passwords.

I was thinking that a vps might be a better choice for this, possibly with some reboot automation in case of outages. That would allow them enough time to initiate the emergency access and import everything before anything happens to the passwords.

I've also got encrypted M-disc backups of the most important passwords with timestamps of when they were last set. I've demonstrated and written down instructions on how to decrypt these. Of course I also have other backups, but I doubt they'd be able to retrieve the non-physical copies of the backups.

Anyway, is that what most people here do with Vaultwarden, use a VPS with mTLS or VPN? To add, I would only use a tunnel for this if I go this route, so no open ports.

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[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 4 points 8 hours ago

This really isn't a technical issue, it's more an estate planning issue. The basic concern is if you die, everyone gets locked out. That is where a will, safety deposit box, and named executor come into play.

Whatever credentials and guides needed can be safely stored and upon death that will activates and the executor hands over the access to whoever you are needing. The safest assumption to make in these scenarios isn't that someone won't know how to access the information, it's that they won't even know that information exists.

You also have to remember that there is a lot of things to do after someone dies and that these people would also be mourning. So, with that consideration in mind, try to make the process as seamless as possible. Off-loading to an executor of the estate (someone who is not family) also lets those people close to you mourn without having that final burden.