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Re:Show HN: Passbolt – open-source password manager for teams by antoncohen on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:43PM (#11582655)
I think the FAQ does a good job of explaining it, basically it is for teams:

https://www.passbolt.com/faq

Things like KeePass and 1Password don't scale well for teams/businesses. There are things like admin passwords that teams need to share (as bad as it is to share passwords, there are a lot of cases where there isn't another option). You can do something like store KeePass or 1Password in Dropbox, but it has issues. The vaults have a password, everyone using it needs to know the password, and everyone gets access to everything. You can't do something like share a billing password with someone in accounting, without also giving them all the root passwords. It becomes a pain to create a bunch of individual vaults for every sharing case, and keep track of and share the individual vault master passwords.

Enterprise password managers also have audit systems. You can see every password someone had access to, every password someone accessed, and who accessed a specific password.

I don't know if Passbolt is any good, it seems like it is off to a decent start. I've looked into enterprise/team password managers at every company I've worked for in the past 10 years; I've never found an open source one I trusted -- they all drop the ball in at least one critical area. And I don't trust the closed source ones either. It is a sad state of affairs, so I welcome new entrants into the space.

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