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It's the dream (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 32 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

I transitioned everything to Bitwarden. Password manager, passkeys, and MFA code generation all in one app that works on all of my devices.

And then I started to self-host it via Vaultwarden and transferred all the data.

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    A friendly FYI: having your passwords and MFA in one place partially defeats the purpose

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    True, but the alternatives generally are either a pain in the ass or require yet another syncing service to have sensitive info just so I can access things reliably anywhere.

    It is still more secure than SMS and email based options.

    Besides, my vaultwarden still needs an MFA code to access in the first place, and that's handled by a separate generator.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I get that not everyone wants to set up something like Aegis in combination with e.g. Syncthing.

    Of course it is still better than SMS and email, but I would recommend you check out Ente Auth and/or Proton Auth.

    Both are end to end encrypted and you would at least have it in separate apps

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm willing to accept the slight security difference in exchange for the convenience of having access on a single app 99.9% of the time.

    To get into my Vaultwarden in the first place to get my info they'd first have to know my self-hosted server exists to target. And they'd need to compromise that MFA which is handled by a separate unrelated app.

    That's more than enough security for nearly everyone on the planet.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sure. But if your bitwarden is protected by a 50char password AND a yubikey, it's not that big of a tradeoff imo. That's what I do, but I have hundreds of MFA tokens and it was PAINFUL to auth a lot of the time when I was using an authenticator app.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    They're exactly why I decided to accept the slight security downgrade for usability. Plus, at the time, finding a yubikey that would work with every device, desktop, laptop, mobile, etc. was impossible without dongles, kind of defeating the point. USB-C wasn't on everything then.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    How do you like the self hosted approach? I contemplate it every so often, but I’m not sure that my sysadmin abilities (and attention) are enough to keep it secure.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The admin overhead isn't too bad as long as you have a good base, and don't try to do anything crazy. I transferred from Synology to a custom built NAS recently, and it's running TrueNAS. That supports not only docker now, but also a catalog of apps preconfigured for TrueNAS with minimal manual setup needed.

    For Vaultwarden, since it needs external access, I had issues setting up various reverse proxy systems and dynamic DNS services properly. So I got cheap like $5 domain through Cloudflare, and run a Cloudflare tunnel back to my network for Vaultwarden and a couple other apps like Emby for my media.

    The Cloudflare tunnel also allows me to use WARP as a VPN on my laptop and phone to route that traffic back through my home network. Which also lets me use the pi-hole on my network for my ad blocking on those devices.

    I jump into the TrueNAS interface weekly to check for system and app updates, and that's about it.

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