3 ms·

I started with 1P and switched to Keepass as they started pushing their subscription service. Keepass was fine, but had some annoying sync issues occasionally (

I started with 1P and switched to Keepass as they started pushing their subscription service. Keepass was fine, but had some annoying sync issues occasionally (via dropbox) and never really found a good ios app. The whole system worked but felt sort of cobbled together. I think this is because it is built as a local application that can sync through other services, rather than server / client. Syncing data is more front and center with BW. Running a bitwarden server has been a much better experience, particularly the bitwarden_rs fork (1). I run it in a container and it's been rock-solid. The organization / collections features make sharing pws with my family really easy, and 2FA gives me peace of mind. The ios app is really smooth too. Importing a db from keepass was pretty easy. BTW, I did try the official bitwarden container first, but found it bloated and feature-restricted (if you don't want to pay a monthly fee). 1. https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

selykg 6y ago
How do you have the Bitwarden server setup? I'd love to run it locally at home on a NUC or something similar, but Bitwarden has this shitty "feature" where you can't actually save anything new unless you have a connection to the server. I'd rather not expose a server to the outside world running locally on my network if possible.
- hoistbypetard 6y ago
  This was my answer to that: https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/caddy_and_wireguard/ https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/caddy_and_wireguard/ I never got 'round to writing up the bitwarden specifics, but it covers the path I negotiated between hosting it somewhere else and exposing it to the world.
- hanklazard 6y ago
  I considered doing it from a home server using a wireguard connection on my Unraid box, but in the end just went for a cheap cloud instance from digital ocean. I'm also a bit uncomfortable with exposing my home network through a reverse-proxy so things that i need lots of access to go up on the VPS.
benhurmarcel 6y ago
> never really found a good ios app If anyone is looking, Strongbox and Keepassium are both good.
- ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
  After playing with dozens of password managers and more phone apps than I can count, I now use KeePassXC on all my desktops/laptops (across Linux/Mac/Win) and Strongbox on iOS devices and have never been happier with my setup. It all just works now.

selykg 6y ago

How do you have the Bitwarden server setup? I'd love to run it locally at home on a NUC or something similar, but Bitwarden has this shitty "feature" where you can't actually save anything new unless you have a connection to the server. I'd rather not expose a server to the outside world running locally on my network if possible.

hoistbypetard 6y ago
This was my answer to that: https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/caddy_and_wireguard/ https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/caddy_and_wireguard/ I never got 'round to writing up the bitwarden specifics, but it covers the path I negotiated between hosting it somewhere else and exposing it to the world.
hanklazard 6y ago
I considered doing it from a home server using a wireguard connection on my Unraid box, but in the end just went for a cheap cloud instance from digital ocean. I'm also a bit uncomfortable with exposing my home network through a reverse-proxy so things that i need lots of access to go up on the VPS.

benhurmarcel 6y ago

> never really found a good ios app If anyone is looking, Strongbox and Keepassium are both good.

ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
After playing with dozens of password managers and more phone apps than I can count, I now use KeePassXC on all my desktops/laptops (across Linux/Mac/Win) and Strongbox on iOS devices and have never been happier with my setup. It all just works now.