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Jesus, I'm tired of switching password managers.
Password Store is the answer, if you don’t need passkey support. You can be sure it can’t be sold. It’s the golden middle: not self hosted, but not owned by anyone.
KeePassXC + KeePassDX is probably the best option, with the downside of no way to sync easily (syncthing is probably the best option there)
I might switch back at some point, been getting frustrated with the bitwarden extension performance always being so poor.
XC is really nice, but the devs are kinda dicks about not integrating some sort of syncing option, instead telling everyone who asks to "just point it to a local folder and use <insert sync tool of your choice> to keep that folder updated." Which isn't terrible advice, but some of us don't have that option on managed devices.
I ended up using Keepass2Android and just pointing it at my webdav server, it seems to work pretty well!
On desktop it's already taken care of since I put the DB in my folders that already sync via Syncthing.
My first password manager was KeePassXC.
Hooked it up with Syncthing, and I've never had issues aside from the occasion database duplicate.
Sync however you want. Syncthing, Nextcloud, Dropbox, Gdrive etc.
Syncthing is the way to leave Google Drive, etc.
Is there a proper syncthing android client now, after the official android client was discontinued?
Syncthing Fork works well for Android
Solid question; there are only third-party apps. A recent discussion in !syncthing@lemmy.ml led me to most recently adopt BasicSync, which is incredibly low-profile and is probably the closest thing we can get to it.
However... if you want to get as pure as possible, you can apparently run Syncthing's Linux version directly in Termux on Android without the need for a dedicated Android app. There are also entire alternatives to Syncthing like syncspirit (which can also be run through Termux and which I'm considering trying as well).
I use Nextcloud myself, but if people don't want to host a server or fuck with syncthing, they can sync it however they want as long as they use a strong enough master password/phrase (which they should be anyway.).
Oh, well, I'm talking about not having to password-lock and unlock your stuff constantly. For long-term storage, sure, that's fine; anything else would be way too tedious, though, no? I guess it depends on your use case and if you could locally automate the locking and unlocking or something.
I'm not sure what you mean. On my computer, I have to unlock the database every so often (you can set how long) with my master password. On my phone I unlock it with my fingerprint. The method of syncing the database is irrelevant.
Oops, I thought you were talking about long-term storage of files in general, like videos and docs or something, not a password database! Never mind.
Merge conflicts are a concern for KeePass, especially for those that don’t want to resolve them. Sync is difficult. AFAIK this is a very common issue with Syncthing setups.
Also, the portability from Bitwarden to KP leaves a bit to be desired, though that’s probably 90% on BW.
I switched over to keepass yesterday, and surprisingly the import from BW was perfect (as far as I can tell), even passkeys came over just fine.
It's really not that much of an issue. I sync my database between several devices, some of which are only used occasionally. Rarely do I ever have a merge conflict.
If you're editing the database on multiple devices before they have a chance to sync with each other, maybe stop doing that. That's what causes merge issues.
I've been using KeePass with Syncthing for 5+ years now and I think I've only had a sync issue once in all this time.
Granted I do make sure I only use the database on one device at a time (so not making edits on desktop and my phone at the same time) and I'm using XC and DX clients not the OG KeePass program.
I'm curious what is causing sync issues to make it "common", I use my db every day.
Yeah, it’s not an uncommon use case to accidentally or even intentionally edit the database on two online devices - I do it all the time when I want a new login to be used on my laptop right after I signed up for some new website on my PC, and the laptop just happens to have an “unpushed” change from last evening, or I edit the new login’s metadata, or whatever.
With this, I’d have to keep a mental model of the versioning of each database and avoid even touching my phone like the plague if KeePass is open on my computer.
It’s not that big of a deal, it’ll probably be a problem once every few months, but it’s annoying to keep track of and worth talking about.
KeePass isn't going anywhere. They're also dragging their feet on passkey support, so you might go with KeepassXC.
@slate
Wasn't there some commotion a few weeks about KeepassXC and vibe coding?
@RonnyZittledong
Yeah, there was. It was forked because of that, actually: https://codeberg.org/ChiPass
Their AI policy looks very reasonable, and they certainly aren't vibe coding. Everything is rigorously reviewed and tested by a handful of experienced, competent humans.
They also don't effectively allow collaboration though, which is my cheif reason for using a cloud hosted password manager.
KeePass isn't meant to be used that way. It's a personal password manager. Always has been.
Valid. But it's also valid that it now doesn't work for me or anyone who also helps manage other people's lives or works on a team ¯_(ツ)_/¯