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I don't understand the extreme love for Bitwarden. I understand it's useful, but I want as few things with a webui and server instance as possible, especially passwords, the thing that should be most secure.
KeePass, vault saved into the user's One Drive synced folder is sufficient. It's secure, offline, and automatically makes backups. And migrates to the new system just by logging into One Drive.
Bitwarden and others worry me because they have a lot of exposed attack surface, comparatively, and require much more maintenance to keep secure imo. I don't want to expose any of that to a portal or anything.
That said, I don't hate Bitwarden, the bitwarden/vault warden software is incredibly solid for what it is.
...shoukd we tell them?
You can access it offline.
I do not mean to imply the One Drive is offline. It's the syncing backend.
But if your internet is out, you can still open your vault and look up a router password, for example, because the vault is a file on your local machine.