If your server is not “online” you could vpn into your home network and use it that way. Another option is to have it local, meaning for example with bit/vault-warden you can still view your passwords if you don’t have connection. But you can’t edit or add new ones
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RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Maybe a silly question, but since I am considering making the jump to a password manager too, I am curious:
If I have a selfhosted server at home that is not connected to the public internet, can I still ise Keepass? Does it have to constantly sync with the server or is it enough that when I get home my passwords are syncing? Could that be a problem?
nx2@feddit.de 8 months ago
Clearwater@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I use KeePassXC, but am assuming KeePass is very similar.
You’ll have a single file on your machine that is your encrypted password database. Syncing is not handled by the app and is your responsibility.
If you want to sync only when you get home, as long as your app to manage that is fine with it, KeePass won’t know or care.
Keep in mind if you make changes on two devices without keeping them in sync, one will probably get overwritten unless you take special care to handle it. (My sync app warns me, then I take both conflicting files and in the KeePass app, I can merge them to solve the conflict without data loss.)
zeluko@kbin.social 8 months ago
Ideally keypass would allow handling such conflicts internally.
Thats the big disadvantage of a single-file approach.Could easily be avoided e.g. sync whole folder and now you can have multiple files, e.g. 1 write file per program used.
clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
You have your local replica of the database and once you’re home or can connect to your home server (through VPN, for example) it will sync with the remote database. I used to have synthing running for this and it worked without issues.