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Why self host a password manager? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm going to move away from lastpass because the user experience is pretty fucking shit. I was going to look at 1pass as I use it a lot at work and so know it. However I have heard a lot of praise for BitWarden and VaultWarden on here and so probably going to try them out first.

My questions are to those of you who self-host, firstly: why?

And how do you mitigate the risk of your internet going down at home and blocking your access while away?

BitWarden's paid tier is only $10 a year which I'm happy to pay to support a decent service, but im curious about the benefits of the above. I already run syncthing on a pi so adding a password manager wouldn't need any additional hardware.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see, thanks for explaining. So IIUC, rook is intended for headless systems?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I use it for everything, but then, I wrote it. All of the desktop secret service tools have desktop dependencies (Gnome's uses Gnome libraries, KDE's pulls some KDE libraries) and run through DBUS; since I don't use a DE, it's a fair bit of unnecessary bloat. And I don't like GUI apps that just hang around in the background consuming resources. I open KeePassXC when I need to make changes to the DB, and then I shut it down. Otherwise, it hangs out in my task bar, distracting me.

Rook is for people who want to run on headless systems, or want to minimize resources usage, or don't use a desktop environment (such as Gnome or KDE), or don't run DBUS, or don't run systemd. It's for people who don't want a bunch of applications running in the background in their task bar. KeePassXC providing a secret service is great, but it's overkill if that's most of what it's providing for you, most of the time.

I don't think took is for everyone, or even for most people. It's for people who like to live mostly in the command line, or even in VTs.