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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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[–] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I switched from Lastpass to 1Pass and it was pretty miserable. I then swtiched to Bitwarden. It's not perfect, but it's better than LP and 1Pass.

The reason you'd want to self-host is so that nobody has access to your data but you. "The cloud" is just someone elses computer"

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

Bitwarden does external audits with reports and stores in zero knowledge storage.
Loose your master password and you are fucked. They can't restore it even if you pay them a million €

[–] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was basically the same claim LP made. Even if true, if you have a bad master password, you can be compromised. While yes, that's on you, your data is a high priority target in a centralized password store... if you host it yourself, someone would first have to know you had that data to even target you for that. Much less exposure hosting it yourself. The convenience factor and potentially less security than a company hosting passwords have, so it's kind of a six of one, half dozen of the other.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Fair points.
Considering bitwarden is zero knowledge the data in itself is for now 'safe' enough to me.
Though I could be subject to IP/vulnerability scans on my home connection or accidentaly forwarding stuff that puts the security at risk and getting compromised (Seriously...The stuff I could connect and control via VNC I found on shodan was very creepy and frightening).
Nah mate. Plus maintaining the data I already have is enough for me. Bitwarden would be way too much. But maybe in the future once I figure Linux and docker more out :)

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

Im curious what makes it better than 1pass? Ive used a few of these, and my experience with 1pass was probably the best. Well, except for the price..