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[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It shouldn't even be that complex...

I might be mistaken, but ultimately a password manager is basically nothing more than a database of passwords in an encrypted zip file, right? That could entirely be self-hosted with off the shelf open source applications stringed together.
All you'd need is a nice UI stringing it all together.

Edit: I'm not sure why people are downvoting me. Is that not what a password manager essentially is?

[-] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 months ago

Keepass is exactly that. Basically all the client side parts, and the database is a single encrypted file that you can sync however you want.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 2 months ago

I've done basically this in the past by encrypting a text file with GPG. But a real password manager will integrate with your browser and helps prevent getting phished by verifying the domain before entering a password. It also syncs across all my devices, which my GPG file only worked well on my desktop.

[-] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

It's the "stringing it all together" that could be problematic.

If you have multiple clients (desktop/cellphone) modifying the same entry (or even different entries in the same "database" ). You need something smart enough to gracefully handle this or atleast tell you about it.

I did the whole "syncing" KeePass and it was functional, but it also meant I needed to handle conflicts - which was annoying. I switched and really appreciate the whole "it just works" with self-hosted bitwarden.

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I see it as it's easy to self host. But I'm not skilled nor rich enough to guarantee the availability of it. I don't want to be stuck on a holiday without my passwords because my server back home died from black out or what have you.

I pay for bitwarden and the proton mail package to keep the password management market a bit more competitive and it actually works out cheaper. It would be nice to have protons anonymous emails built in, but I can live with it.

But I might have to reconsider if Bitwarden is going a different direction that what I'm paying for.

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

That is the bare minimum of a password manager like Bitwarden.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yup, thanks. Was thinking along these same lines.

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