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A password manager that is open source, self hostable, works on all platforms, and most of all, is good. Even the 'good', proprietary ones (1Password, Lastpass)

A password manager that is open source, self hostable, works on all platforms, and most of all, is good. Even the 'good', proprietary ones (1Password, Lastpass), just aren't very good.

cercatrova 9y ago
Have you tried KeePass?
- dvlsg 9y ago
  Not OP, but i love KeePass. I'm not 100% sure what OP is looking for when they said self hosted, but I enjoy that the password database boils down to a single file that I can backup and share (albeit manually).
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    I am very surprised when people express dissatisfaction with their password manager, because KeePass and its ecosystem is basically perfect. Keepass2Android is especially good.
    - bradknowles 9y ago
      The problem is that there isn’t just one “KeePass”. There’s a bazillion of them, depending on the OS you’re running, the language it’s written in, the multiple keepass database formats, how recent the code has been updated and whether they continue to track developments from other members of the KeePass universe, and so on. I’ve tried every single KeePass implementation there is/was for iOS, and most of them I couldn’t get to work at all. Some would actually launch, but then wouldn’t function. I think I found one that kinda-semi-sorta functioned, but then it had limitations in the database formats it supported and I couldn’t find a suitable counterpart on macOS. But then I think the entire KeePass universe has probably changed a few times since then, so I probably need to go back and exhaustively re-try all the available programs over again. But as that matrix gets bigger and bigger, the permutations and combinations of all the possible variants with all the other possible variants becomes impossible to test. OTOH, 1Password has a local database, multiple options for sync’ing the database, a first-class UI, good support from a great company, and it “Just Works” on all the platforms I care about.
Shoothe 9y ago
What about https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/? Of course it depends on your definition of "good".
brucephillips 9y ago
What's the problem with 1password?
kostarelo 9y ago
With a simple search, there aren't so many really: * https://lesspass.com/#/ https://lesspass.com/#/ * https://www.passbolt.com/ https://www.passbolt.com/ * https://github.com/maklesoft/padlock/ https://github.com/maklesoft/padlock/
twobyfour 9y ago
Define "good", and how the best existing ones fail to be "good"?
- rhinoceraptor 9y ago
  Just the UX in general, 1Password is the best IMO. But it's still not great.
KitDuncan 9y ago
Have you tried bitwarden? It's open source and self-hostable and I definitely prefer it over lastpass.

A password manager that is open source, self hostable, works on all platforms, and most of all, is good. Even the 'good', proprietary ones (1Password, Lastpass), just aren't very good.

cercatrova 9y ago

Have you tried KeePass?

dvlsg 9y ago
Not OP, but i love KeePass. I'm not 100% sure what OP is looking for when they said self hosted, but I enjoy that the password database boils down to a single file that I can backup and share (albeit manually).
- StavrosK 9y ago
  I am very surprised when people express dissatisfaction with their password manager, because KeePass and its ecosystem is basically perfect. Keepass2Android is especially good.
  - bradknowles 9y ago
    The problem is that there isn’t just one “KeePass”. There’s a bazillion of them, depending on the OS you’re running, the language it’s written in, the multiple keepass database formats, how recent the code has been updated and whether they continue to track developments from other members of the KeePass universe, and so on. I’ve tried every single KeePass implementation there is/was for iOS, and most of them I couldn’t get to work at all. Some would actually launch, but then wouldn’t function. I think I found one that kinda-semi-sorta functioned, but then it had limitations in the database formats it supported and I couldn’t find a suitable counterpart on macOS. But then I think the entire KeePass universe has probably changed a few times since then, so I probably need to go back and exhaustively re-try all the available programs over again. But as that matrix gets bigger and bigger, the permutations and combinations of all the possible variants with all the other possible variants becomes impossible to test. OTOH, 1Password has a local database, multiple options for sync’ing the database, a first-class UI, good support from a great company, and it “Just Works” on all the platforms I care about.

Shoothe 9y ago

What about https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/? Of course it depends on your definition of "good".

brucephillips 9y ago

What's the problem with 1password?

kostarelo 9y ago

With a simple search, there aren't so many really: * https://lesspass.com/#/ https://lesspass.com/#/ * https://www.passbolt.com/ https://www.passbolt.com/ * https://github.com/maklesoft/padlock/ https://github.com/maklesoft/padlock/

twobyfour 9y ago

Define "good", and how the best existing ones fail to be "good"?

rhinoceraptor 9y ago
Just the UX in general, 1Password is the best IMO. But it's still not great.

KitDuncan 9y ago

Have you tried bitwarden? It's open source and self-hostable and I definitely prefer it over lastpass.