In the latest episode of "they will always sell you out" - they sold you out! Who would've thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can't exist without "leeching" off of Bitwarden.

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[–] 264 points 3 months ago (92 children)

Jesus, I'm tired of switching password managers.

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  • [–] 82 points 3 months ago (31 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Sync however you want. Syncthing, Nextcloud, Dropbox, Gdrive etc.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Syncthing is the way to leave Google Drive, etc.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Is there a proper syncthing android client now, after the official android client was discontinued?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    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).

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I'm using Keepass2Android (and KeepassXC). It can copy the database from/to an sftp server, so it can easily merge the entries. I don't have the sftp server exposed to the Internet, because when I'm not home, nobody will change the database at home.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (46 children)

    KeePass isn't going anywhere. They're also dragging their feet on passkey support, so you might go with KeepassXC.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    @slate

    Wasn't there some commotion a few weeks about KeepassXC and vibe coding?

    @RonnyZittledong

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (23 children)

    They also don't effectively allow collaboration though, which is my cheif reason for using a cloud hosted password manager.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    What is "collaboration" in this context?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I just got Bit warden this year! Gah. Where are we jumping?

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