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Offtopic/Ask HN: I tried to use Vaultwarden implementation with one caveat: I don't need to use any plug-ins - my everyday passwords are at my fingertips anywa

Offtopic/Ask HN: I tried to use Vaultwarden implementation with one caveat: I don't need to use any plug-ins - my everyday passwords are at my fingertips anyway, for anything else I'm fine with logging in and copy-pasting the login and password. And here comes the thing which makes VW (and a couple of other password managers I tried in the last couple of years) usage abysmal: the web-interface just sucks. First of all - the process of adding a new login-password info requires too many clicks to set something more than just a login, password, (web-site) address. You want to add some tag? Click 'add', click 'type', click to the value field, type in. Want more than one tag? Repeat for each one. Okay, that would be tolerable if this was just once in a while task, but here comes the next one: Second and more important - awful search. VW just doesn't have the search functionality. It just loads ALL your accounts and filters them in the UI.. and sometimes even fails to do that. Like I see '$something' in the account description, type it in the 'search' field.. and have an empty result. For me personally the lack of useful search (including server-side search) makes the thing unusable. Are my requirements (sane web-gui, working search, usable without browser/apps addons) unreasonable?

mqus 5y ago
Afaik the Web-Interface of Vaultwarden is exactly the same as the normal bitwarden web client. The only thing they added was their admin interface, which you wouldn't normally see anyways. > It just loads ALL your accounts and filters them in the UI Server-side search would only work if you decrypt the data on the server, which is explicitly not wanted.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  > Server-side search would only work if you decrypt the data on the server Or do not store it encrypted (aside from passwords) in the first place, or have a separate server-side encryption for non secrets, so it would be still encrypted at rest. It is all understandable, yet I don't have an option (except using almost a decade old RatticDB).

mqus 5y ago

Afaik the Web-Interface of Vaultwarden is exactly the same as the normal bitwarden web client. The only thing they added was their admin interface, which you wouldn't normally see anyways. > It just loads ALL your accounts and filters them in the UI Server-side search would only work if you decrypt the data on the server, which is explicitly not wanted.

justsomehnguy 5y ago
> Server-side search would only work if you decrypt the data on the server Or do not store it encrypted (aside from passwords) in the first place, or have a separate server-side encryption for non secrets, so it would be still encrypted at rest. It is all understandable, yet I don't have an option (except using almost a decade old RatticDB).