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Why self host a password manager? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by el_abuelo@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm going to move away from lastpass because the user experience is pretty fucking shit. I was going to look at 1pass as I use it a lot at work and so know it. However I have heard a lot of praise for BitWarden and VaultWarden on here and so probably going to try them out first.

My questions are to those of you who self-host, firstly: why?

And how do you mitigate the risk of your internet going down at home and blocking your access while away?

BitWarden's paid tier is only $10 a year which I'm happy to pay to support a decent service, but im curious about the benefits of the above. I already run syncthing on a pi so adding a password manager wouldn't need any additional hardware.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Accessing Vaultwarden through a VPN

Hmm maybe I should move mine to my VPN. Currently I have it publicly accessible so I can access it from systems where I can't run other VPNs for security reasons (work systems). I use a physical token with FIDO2 (Yubikey) for two factor authentication though, so I'm not too worried about unauthorized access.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vaultwarden is one of the few services I'd actually trust to be secure, so I wouldn't worry if you update timely to new versions.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope it gets security audited one day, like Bitwarden was.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because they use the official apps/web-vault, they don't need to implement most of the vault/encryption features, so at least the actual data should be fine.

Security audits are expensive, so I don't expect it to happen, unless some sponsor pays for it.

They have processes for CVEs and it seems like there wasn't any major security issues (altough I wouldn't host a public instance for unknown users).

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 month ago

That's a good point. I didn't consider the fact that all the encryption is done client-side, so that's the most important part to audit (which Bitwarden has already done).

[–] k4j8@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have my Vaultwarden public so I can use it at work too, but my firewall blocks all external IPs except my work's IP.