Password managers

montymint said:
How was moving the vaults for you? I'm coming to the end of a year of Lastpass and although I love the phone / web apps the cost is getting crazy now.

Are the webapp / phone apps comparible?
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Very simple, I thought. Download a packages, upload a package. I think that was it.

I wouldn't say I was a power user, but to me, they seem to be identical for my needs.
 
As above, I moved from last pass to Bitwarden when they changed their policies and I just downloaded the CSV from last pass and uploaded it to Bitwarden.

Lastpass > Bitwarden when it comes to their UI’s but otherwise the functionality is similar but Bitwarden is orders of magnitude cheaper.
 
Most people don't even need to pay for Bitwarden, the free account offers unlimited passwords and syncing between all devices. Although since it's just $10 a year it's great for people to support an open source project like Bitwarden, that's why I buy the premium even though I don't use the features.
 
Ice Tea said:
Installing anything on 3rd party hardware that was unwanted by the owner would be considered crud and bloat.

For example If somebody lent their mobile phone, tablet or laptop to someone that was having a issue (often happens at airports and train stations) then i think most people would find it strange and somewhat suspicious if that person then started installing software or plugging in a USB stick.

In the same way Webmail will always be more convenient than running your own email server and carrying around the data base on a usb stick or syncing it to cloud, A online password manager will always be more convenient than a stand alone password client/server to a vast majority of people.
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What total rubbish, I have no idea what bizarre, messed up, odd, silly and stupid situation you are talking about.

In what world does anyone lend anyone their personal IT gear/phones and then wants them to have access to ALL their passwords for ALL their entire life.

Shush now, so weird.

Email is nothing like password managers!

Also my database is on the cloud so its always available online like email anyway :rolleyes:
 
Ice Tea said:
If people don't need the business version then single user premium with self hosting is $10 / £7.68 per year.
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My bad, the free version has self hosting.

Has the premium version always had a authenticator as i don't remember seeing it when i tried bitwarden a few years ago?
 
Combat squirrel said:
What total rubbish, I have no idea what bizarre, messed up, odd, silly and stupid situation you are talking about.

In what world does anyone lend anyone their personal IT gear/phones and then wants them to have access to ALL their passwords for ALL their entire life.

Shush now, so weird.
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Unless you use one computer alone what strange world do you live in where family, friends and work colleagues don't share phones, tablets and works pc's?

No one will have access to your passwords anymore than they have access to your webmail because you don't need to install jack, no 3rd party addons or install any software to use online password managers.

Combat squirrel said:
Email is nothing like password managers!
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Then you obviously have never used a online password manager to realize that it's just a webpage like webmail, the addons are optional.


Combat squirrel said:
Also my database is on the cloud so its always available online like email anyway :rolleyes:
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So now your saying that you do realize that online password managers are like email considering password managers database is on encrypted cloud?

What difference does it make if you host it on cloud or the password manage hosts it on cloud?
 
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Bouton Aide said:
The self hosted version becomes pro automatically once you sign in and activate your email. :)

There are differences between the free and pro.
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I didn't articulate that very well, i meant the inbuilt 2FA authenticator as i don't remember seeing that a few years ago unless it's always been part of the premium version.
 
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If someone is concerned about the use of password managers due to only having a single master password to access all of their other passwords, a good way to mitigate this particular fear is to have an additional password / phrase that you have to manually type in. This could simply be an easily remembered miniature password / phrase where you add onto the front, middle, end or any other part of the password. This password / phrase could be the same for all of your (insert relevant amount of passwords here) passwords. You then have two passwords to remember. The master password and the type of password / phrase described in this post.
 
Fire Wizard said:
If someone is concerned about the use of password managers due to only having a single master password to access all of their other passwords, a good way to mitigate this particular fear is to have an additional password / phrase that you have to manually type in. This could simply be an easily remembered miniature password / phrase where you add onto the front, middle, end or any other part of the password. This password / phrase could be the same for all of your (insert relevant amount of passwords here) passwords. You then have two passwords to remember. The master password and the type of password / phrase described in this post.
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I know someone who adds a special character to the end of the passwords in his password manager based on the first alphabetic letter of the website's name. E.g. Google.com? Starts with a G, so add a & to the end. Etc... So he has memorised a master password and one special character per letter.

It's honestly not necessary, easier to just set up two-factor authentication on the password manager.
 
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