▲ 1492 ▼ Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others? (lemmy.ca) submitted 3 years ago by Kagathara@lemmy.ca to c/android@lemmy.world 1033 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Is that really how it works? I thought it was all open source software? If it is I don't see how you can be required to pay if you host it yourself? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago* It is open source - but the server essentially locks you out of various functionality unless you create an account with Bitwarden and provide a valid subscription token. Sure, you can fork it and excise that code from it... but that's too laborious and potentially error-prone, imho. If I were to selfhost bitwarden again, I'd go with Vaultwarden, which claims to be fully compatible and has no such requirements. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago* It is open source - but the server essentially locks you out of various functionality unless you create an account with Bitwarden and provide a valid subscription token. Sure, you can fork it and excise that code from it... but that's too laborious and potentially error-prone, imho. If I were to selfhost bitwarden again, I'd go with Vaultwarden, which claims to be fully compatible and has no such requirements. permalink fedilink source parent
