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Reevaluating my password management (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It never made sense to me to put password managers in the cloud. Regards to what you intend it to do, you’re making it accessible to a wider audience than necessary. And yet, I’m using iCloud. It’s time for a change.

I’m thinking of just running a locally hosted password manager on my home server and letting my devices sync with it somehow when I’m at home. I have a VPN into my home network when I’m away that automatically triggers when I leave the house, so even that’s not that big an issue, but I’m really not familiar with what’s gonna cleanly integrate with all my stuff and be easy to use. All I know is I wanna kill the cloud functionality of my setup.

I already have a jellyfish server so I figured I would just throw this onto that. Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Is the data super important to you?

Let someone else host it.

Bitwarden in the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

This. And to add to what other commenters have said, by using Bitwarden and paying for their Premium plan (very cheap, just $10/month), even if you don't use all their features, you're supporting a good project. It's critical infrastructure, I think the price is more than fair.
Either way, you should always make periodic backups from any cloud service you use, encrypted of course.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Agreed. Unless your setup and security practices is flawless, I think passwords are better managed by specialists paid for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

+1 to this; Time spent on your setup is an important factor too.

The more important your data is, the more time you are going to need to spend maintaining your system to ensure security, backups and fail-overs. Not everyone has luxurious amount of time to spend on their home-lab everyday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I did self-host bitwarden and it's not that bad to keep updated and running after initial setup (including backups obviously) but it still requires some time and effort to keep it running. And as I was the only user for the service it just wasn't worth the time spent for me (YMMV) so I switched to their EU servers and I've been a happy user ever since.

What I should do is to improve local backps on that, currently I just export my data every now and then manually to a secured storage, but doing it manually means that there's often too long time between exports.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

This is how I view password managers too, even though I have my home server backing up