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I use Bitwarden and it's open source. Switched over from LastPass and haven't regretted it since
by propwash 5y ago
I use Bitwarden and it's open source. Switched over from LastPass and haven't regretted it since
- jpxw 5y agoBitwarden has the best UI/UX of any password manager I have used, by far. In particular it puts LastPass (which I switched from) to shame. I rarely use the premium features, but I pay for premium anyway to support the project. Costs a dollar a month, so barely noticeable.
- kalleboo 5y agoYeah I evaluated a few team password managers for a friend's small business and Bitwarden was the clear winner (1Password was second, but fell due to the requirement for a long random master key). I was surprised by just how bad Last pass and Dashlane were considering how much they spend on advertising
- convery 5y agoCan you elaborate on the issues with Lastpass? I haven't looked at other managers but Lastpass seems fine.
- senectus1 5y agoit can be a bit club-footed on the mobile platform. but yeah its my password manager of choice as well.
- jpxw 5y agoAre you on Android or iOS? The iOS app is really well done IMO.
- artificialLimbs 5y agoThe iOS version won't remember my banking app password for some reason. That works on Android though. Other than that it's been hands down the best.
- senectus1 5y agoAndroid. I often run into problems where the bloody stupid "use bitwarden to fill this field" hover button pops up over the field i need to paste something into. I need to do that because the app hasn't detected the app i'm using is actually a password i currently only have the web URI password saved for.
- Grimm665 5y agoAgreed, works on Android, but it's clumsy.
- llampx 5y agoI have to use 1password for work and hate the UI compared to bitwarden
- Biganon 5y agoCould you please elaborate? I've been using 1password for a while, and I can't imagine how it could be any better
- kspacewalk2 5y agoSame. We have it at work, but 1Password's UI is the reason I use it at home as well.
- chewmieser 5y agoSeriously I LOVE 1password. I moved away from LastPass to it after reviewing some of the OSS offerings. I have not found a more feature-complete (and pretty for that matter) alternative. One of the my favorite features that I cannot find in other password managers it the built-in 2fa support. Click to login to a 2fa enabled site and it copies the code to your clipboard so you just paste and voila at the next screen. Perfect!
- jlund-molfese 5y agoOne example is how 1password hijacks the ctrl+F key combination. So, if I have a long secret, perhaps a config section, I have to manually copy and paste it into a text editor in order to properly search through it.
- mcintyre1994 5y agoI mostly like Bitwarden but I really miss the 1password feature where it shows your password in big text with each character numbered. I have a few accounts that do that dumb "give us the 5th, 12th and 21st characters" thing.
- Gatsky 5y agoWhat did you find was better about Bitwarden?
- square_usual 5y agoNot GP, but LastPass's weird restrictions on devices, for one.
- propwash 5y agoNo restrictions on number of devices for one. Everything else was the same and I didn't feel like I losing out, so it was easy to switch. They have an import tool that made it easier
- gregmac 5y agoKiller feature for me is the URI matching options. Each entry can have URIs, and each URI can match based on: Base Domain, Host, Starts With, Exact, or Regex. This simplified a bunch of things for me: * Dev deployments of an app, where I have one or two different logins (eg, the default admin login) but it's deployed on a bunch of subdomains and/or internal IPs and/or internal non-FQDN hosts * A bunch of work systems on different domains where there's old-style SSO (synchronized password, but login form as part of the app) * Android apps just get a URI like com.domain.AppName and can otherwise be consolidated with other entries, etc
- tvanantwerp 5y agoI looked into Bitwarden for work, but there's no password reset option for admins. I don't know how many times people have forgotten their password manager's password and I've had to reset it. Without that feature, Bitwarden is a non-starter for a corporate environment.
- josu 5y agoIt was just added last week https://bitwarden.com/blog/post/admin-password-reset-is-out/ https://bitwarden.com/blog/post/admin-password-reset-is-out/
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoI hope this makes it into bitwarden_rs, which is what we use at work, soon. That and/or the ability to disable personal vaults would go a long ways for us.
- andrewkdinh 5y agobitwarden_rs has been renamed to vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
- Hawxy 5y agoWouldn't be a HN password manager thread without someone randomly plugging Bitwarden when it has nothing to do with the actual topic :)
- grammers 5y agoChose Bitwarden as well. I like that it's open source. I've heard good things about KeePass as well.
- JackMcMack 5y agoHas anyone had any success in getting your TOTP shared secrets out of Lastpass Authenticator?
- war1025 5y agoI don't think it's quite what you were asking, but I always avoided Two Factor Auth because I don't use a smartphone and all the approved methods seemed to use phone apps. A year ago, one of my accounts forced me to enable two factor auth, so I spent time looking into how to make it less onerous. Turns out the TOTP code stuff is an open standard and there is a command line tool [1] you can use to generate the codes. Thought that was really neat. I wrote a little script to integrate with my password manager and went from avoiding two factor auth to enabling it everywhere. [1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html