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Why self host a password manager? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago by el_abuelo@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you recall the rational for 1password?

I can imagine the enterprise/business options are better than bitwarden but as an individual user I don't need that and would only have the individual plan. It's a little over twice the price of BitWarden and while every company I've worked at in recent years has had 1password i don't see it mentioned on here anywhere near as often as BitWarden.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I imagine BitWarden is sufficiently good. The big leap in security comes from having no password manager to a decent password manager.

LastPass does not seem as serious about security so it doesn’t meet my personal bar for decency.