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Can you recommend any reputable open source password managers?
by pault 9y ago
Can you recommend any reputable open source password managers?
- Dado1995 9y agoKeePassX?
- sdfin 9y agoWhy is this downvoted? is there something wrong with KeePassX?
- Santosh83 9y agoIt hasn't been receiving improvements or maintenance for almost two years, and as a result, it has been forked and is actively developed by a different team under the name of KeePassXC. So nothing inherently wrong with KeePassX but you need to be aware that it is almost abandoned at this point and that there is a better alternative
- H1t 9y agoKeePassX is not actively maintained, as already mentioned but the original KeePass project (https://keepass.info/ https://keepass.info/) that KeePassX was based off and the new cross-platform fork KeePassXC (https://keepassxc.org/ https://keepassxc.org/) are both active and highly recommended.
- bertman 9y agohttps://passwordstore.org https://passwordstore.org
- TheDong 9y agohttps://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/ (windows, android, and ios clients exist in addition to the better known linux/osx cli client) Keepass (and keepassX and keepassC) https://bitwarden.com/ https://bitwarden.com/
- endymi0n 9y agoGopass, the 98% `pass` compatible password manager with a lot of nice improvements on the UX side: https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/ https://www.justwatch.com/gopass/ https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass
- Santosh83 9y agoKeePass, pass, PasswordSafe, KeePassXC, bitwarden, enpass
- resonanttoe 9y agoSadly Enpass is not open source. https://discussion.enpass.io/index.php?/topic/210-open-source/ https://discussion.enpass.io/index.php?/topic/210-open-sourc... https://www.enpass.io/legal-end-user-license-agreement/ https://www.enpass.io/legal-end-user-license-agreement/
- l1ambda 9y agoAs well as https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass compatible with KeePass
- gregknicholson 9y agoI don't know whether [LessPass](https://lesspass.com/ https://lesspass.com/) is reputable, but it's notable for its approach. It's primarily a password generator, rather than a password manager. It reproducibly generates difficult-to-guess passwords, using as input: the site's URL, your username and a master password. You save, sync and retrieve your passwords using your browser's built-in password manager. I never previously used a password manager because I wanted to ensure I would always have access to my passwords. I started using LessPass because: * When I need to log in on a non-synced device (such as someone else's computer), I can read the site's password from Firefox on my phone and transcribe it. * If I lose all of my devices, I can still retrieve my existing passwords, because the password generation algorithm uses only my master password as salt.
- TheDong 9y agoLesspass is not notable for its approach; deterministic password managers have existed for quite some time. They're often recommended against, and it's dangerous to use one without a full understanding of the significant caveats. See https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-password-managers https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-passw..., the hacker news discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016132, and notably the top comment there.
- remir 9y agobitwarden is good and open source.