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Reevaluating my password management (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 21 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] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i have keepass on only one device. i don't mind looking up individual passwords and typing them in manually when on other devices.

on the device which hosts keepass, the app is hidden and hoops must be jumped to reach it.

i back up the encrypted password database once a month to a cloud service as insurance against me losing that one device.

it's not the most convenient setup but i sleep so much easier for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

using passphrases instead of passwords can make this a lot easier as well. a lot of times i just glance at a passphrase on my phone and then type the whole thing in one go into my laptop