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Why self host a password manager? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t understand it tbh. Password managers and email are the main things I avoid self hosting. Email because it’s just too easy to fuck something up and never realize you’re not actually properly sending/receiving email. And password managers because if I lose access to it, I’m kinda royally fucked. And the password managers I use keeps a local copy of your database that gets periodically updated, so even without internet I do still have access.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Could one not theoretically self-host a PW manager that also keeps a local copy of the database for times with no internet?

Idk if that doesn't exist yet or what, and there are plenty of other reasons against self-hosting a PW manager but that seems like a logical work-around for that particular problem. Keep your access when the internet is down, and keep your data out of third party control.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Bitwarden does exactly that. It will mostly work with no server connection.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely, in fact I’d be willing to bet vaultwarden does just that. That’s a good point.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, it does!