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What password manager do you recommend? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Okay so yesterday, I changed my password as a precaution because of the hack, and just now I decided to clean my browser tabs and re login and almost forgot my password. I'm done dealing with passwords.

What password manager do you recommend?

Features I’m looking for

-Open Source

-Can be synced to cloud (I don’t want self host)

-Can be accessed via a browser

-Cross platform, the more platforms, the better

-End to End Encrypted, and Encrypted at rest on my device, also need some way to authenticate before releasing the password, like a pin or biometrics

-Autofill for browser and apps

-Free (can be a freemium model, but I need the base tier to be free, too broke to spend money on this lol)

-Can export the passwords to a file

I never used a password manager before so sorry if I seem like a noob.

I know I could google it, but I want the lastest info, not some outdated reddit post.

Edit: Woah, those replies are fast. I think I'll use Bitwarden. Thanks for recommendations! Now I don't need to worry about forgetting passwords anymore. πŸ˜„

Edit 2: It seems I've forgotten my email password as well as a few other accounts I haven't logged into for a while. Damn, should've used a password manager earlier.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried bitwarden and others and finally just settled on the firefox password manager. It does everything I need.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

firefox

For me the firefox password manager is totally fine : I know where the encrypted file is and I can manually back it up and copy to an other computer ($HOME/.mozilla/firefox/[profile folder]/key4.db + logins.json). You can decrypt yourself the file easily too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Firefox as well. My uneducated concern. I once installed Chrome on my PC for something specific. During the install, it asked if I would like to import my saved logins from Firefox. I thought: "let's see". In fact, it unencrypted the file, and loaded all my passwords. So, my thought is, of someone was to gain access to that file, how hard would it really be to unencrypted it? If chrome can do it as part of their wizard.

Again, feel free to educate me, but that's my concern

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I assume it would only be (properly) encrypted if you set a master password in firefox?

If chrome could bypass the master password, that would be concerning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You need to set a master password to encrypt them indeed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh neat. Just gpg -d HOME/.mozilla/firefox/[profile folder]/key4.db + logins.json ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My only gripe is having to insert my password every 15min (afaik it's either that or having all your accessible by anyone using your computer). That and the fact that they discontinued the password manager they had on Android. This is what made me move to bitwarden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

they discontinued the password manager they had on Android

I use it on Android Firefox every day, it syncs my passwords to all my linked firefox instances.

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

Ah, I was using Firefox Lockwise, which was discontinued, but I see that Firefox itself can act as a password manager now?

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

By which I mean an auto-fill service

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, andiyou can sync between you installs.

It not perfect but it's enough for me at least.