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Why self host a password manager? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by el_abuelo@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You'll learn pretty quickly that a large chunk of self-hosting people are the types that are just terrified of having things be outside their control, which by extension means they are terrified of other people that aren't them running infrastructure. ๐Ÿซ 

[โ€“] k_rol@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True but also free service and fun to play with.

[โ€“] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The learning aspect is the big one for me. If you need a reliable service with no time spent learning or troubleshooting, you're probably better using a paid service.

[โ€“] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But also, there are significant potential savings and advantages for data storage at home.

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

And at 10โ‚ฌ per year I'll gladly pay that. Now if it was 10โ‚ฌ per month and almost bi-yearly increasing, because why not, I'd quickly reconsider taking the risk and responsibility of self-hosting the door to my internet- and reallife existence.
I store everything in there. Banking, health, shopping, etc etc. Not worth it exposing it without knowing how much I expose.
The things I currently expose are relatively low-risk.