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?

  • dr-robot@fedia.io
    431·
    5 days ago

    Why not use KeepassXC? It’s a completely local encrypted db but it integrates with cloud storage apps like nextcloud for sync. It has plugins for integration with Firefox and KeepassAndroid is pretty smooth on the current Android OS.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Yup this is the way. The resulting .kdbx database file is encrypted so you can even synchronize it over an untrusted provider. Otherwise you can use something like syncthing to keep it strictly peer to peer.

    • glitching@lemmy.mlEnglish
      123·
      5 days ago

      this one, OP. no need to introduce the horror that’s a:

      • hosted app (why?!)
      • client app is electron crapware
      • the client app doesn’t even have full functionality, you have to use the web UI for some tasks

      edit: I’m obviously speaking about the bitwarden/vaultwarden horror. keepassXC is none of them things.

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        KeepassXC is the only thing that makes sense to me.

        I don’t want all my passwords stored with some huge target like lastpass or bitwarden.

        Encrypted local (and synced) DB is the only way.