Which password manager?

[fracai]

I absolutely agree. I didn't mean to imply that I won't/don't pay for software and services, I just prefer to pay once/lifetime and not as a subscription.

Developers too would prefer to pay once for food, clothing, shelter, etc. but those seem to require repeated payments as well. ;-)

I personally haven't started their subscription either. I continue to hold out purchasing single versions, but we'll see how long they offer that option and whether it remains cost effective.

 

[voyager529]

At work, we use TeamPass. It's pretty solid, OSS, and $0, but it has neither mobile apps nor a responsive WebUI. The not-free-but-pretty-inexpensive Team Password Manager is excellent, and I run one at home on a RasPi, happily. SysPass, BitWarden, Passbolt, and Psono all have free(mium) self-hosted password management releases.

 

[CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet]

I'm currently using Syncthing on my FreeNAS server to sync a KeePass database between my various client devices. It works perfectly well but I must say that I never use more than one client device at a time, so I can comment on how versioning and conflicts are handled, and I don't use them outside my LAN or on my mobile phone.

The one killer feature this setup lacks for me is properly integrated multi user usage [EDIT] with just the one database. Being the resident computer nerd in the house, I'm pretty good (but far from perfect) in regards to security best practices... my family on the other hand, now that's a different story. I'd like to encourage the rest of my family to use a password manager, so I've been looking at Pleasant Password Server.

http://www.pleasantsolutions.com/passwordserver

It ticks a lot of boxes, the two main ones being that I can self host it and that it's multi-user (so I can administer other users and enforce usage restrictions). I've trialed it, both via the nifty online demo and one my in a VM on my PC, and it looks to be a goer but there's one big downside. It's Windows only and along with my increasing dislike of Winbdows, I'd rather not have to run a VM just for one program... it might just be worth the overhead though. Either way, I'm gonna try getting it to run under WINE first.

 

[pro lamer]

try getting it to run under WINE first.

Keep us in the loop :)

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[CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet]

Keep us in the loop :)

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Will do.

I'm 99% sure that it's only workable in a VM as WINE requires an X server (xorg) for any application that has a GUI, i.e. anything that can't be run solely from the console. In order to use X in a FreeNAS Jail, the base FreeNAS install would need to be modified which, for obvious reasons, makes a Jail install a non-starter/bad idea.

I'm gonna try getting working on Linux using WINE tomorrow. It still means I'd have to run a VM but at least it'd be FOSS (as in speech and beer) and I wouldn't have to give Microsoft anymore money for the pleasure of being a product rather than a customer.