I use KeepassDX on family mobiles with Syncthing for copies between laptop and phones. What would i gain moving to Bitwarden + Vaultwarden, knowing that i would never open my network to the outside world? It would be easier to manage for sure as im having to setup phones and laotops myself. But what about offline access to passwords. Does Bitwarden keep a local copy until it can sync?
I use Vaultwarden hosted on my private server. It’s great, will never use another PW manager. and yes it’s cached locally so you’re good. on PC, at least via the bitwarden CLI, you do a one time login and that’s it. you’re logged in until you tell it to logout, logs you in automatically on restarts and what have you. plus it’s very easy to access on whatever pc or phone you want to use. for pc you can just add the bw extension and have your passwords where ever or just simply login to your vaultwarden page remotely. this has been a life saver for me a couple times when I needed a pw for something but I wasn’t on my machine and borrowing someone elses.
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/…/4676
The major downside to the single file storage used by Keepass is that it’s easy to accidentally create a conflict between files on different devices if they’re not synced immediately. Conflicting files have to be merged manually or data might be lost. I’ve run into this several times with Keepass + Nextcloud. In comparison, a central master database with local cache can resolve conflicts between individual records.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
That is another problem i face when i have the app open on desktop and phone at the same time. Its a nightmare.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 days ago
I use keepassxc and syncthing and have never had this problem.
I think there’s something in the settings to save after each change and reparse if there’s a remote change.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Doesn’t it only lead to problems if you change the same exact data on both copies to different values? It literally never happened to me, I never had a merge problem. It always just asks me to merge, I say yes, and that’s it.
elmicha@feddit.org 2 days ago
Keepass2Android can use an sftp server. If something was changed on the desktop, Keepass2Android will ask if it should merge the changes.
vas@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Technically KeePass can “merge” and has some sort of conflict resolution, but you’re right that forgotten and unaddressed conflicts can lay around for unlimited time without you noticing. It’s the main problem with keepass + syncthing.
flux@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
On the other hand, Vaultwarden can only be updated online. While I do use it, I consider it a major downside, along with the inability to sync attachments.