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Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by maddyboo on Saturday August 26, 2017 @12:53PM (#15106244)
Is KeeWeb new? I went through an extensive search for a new password manager a few months ago when I transitioned from macOS to Arch Linux and yet I've never heard of it. I ended up settling on Enpass which is decent but not perfect. KeeWeb looks nice though, how do you like it?
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by tiangolo on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:32PM (#15134133)
About KeeWeb vs KeePass:

KeeWeb is a drop in replacement for KeePass, it uses the same format, so you can use the same Android clients to open the same file. IMHO It's a lot better than KeePass, especially if you are in Linux.

KeeWeb is written in JS with desktop apps using Electron. I moved away from KeePass to KeeWeb because, although KeePass was first, it is old now, it was written for Windows and then ported using Mono to Linux.

As it uses Mono for Linux, that generates some issues. For example, I couldn't copy a password from the interface and paste it in a Terminal (I'm not sure if it was because I use Tmux all the time). It handles the clipboard in weird ways. I had to paste it somewhere else, like the browser and then copy it from the browser to paste it in the Terminal. With KeeWeb it works normally.

Recently they added support for a plug-in that creates a local server compatible with the one created by plug-ins in KeePass. It can then be used by Chrome extensions like: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromeipass/ompiai...

That last part is what made me finally decide to go for KeeWeb instead of KeePass. It gives you "LastPass" like functionality in the browser while you keep being the one that handles your encrypted DB. And then you can store that file in Dropbox, so that you have access to it everywhere.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by jlgaddis on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:02PM (#15106273)
FWIW, I use KeePassX [0] on Arch Linux. I also use LastPass (because $work has an Enterprise account) but I prefer using lastpass-cli [1] instead of the browser extensions.

[0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/keepassx...

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lastpass...

Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by ShareDVI on Saturday August 26, 2017 @03:40PM (#15106991)
KeePassX stoppet updating, switch to KeepassXC: https://keepassxc.org
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by jlgaddis on Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:33AM (#15109281)
That's fine, it does everything I need it to already.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by JamesLeonis on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:27PM (#15106397)
+1 for Keepass. I use it across Windows, OSX, Linux, and my Android phone.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by maddyboo on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:35PM (#15106436)
KeePassX has been on my radar. I think I gravitated towards Enpass because the UI is more similar to 1Password.

I originally used lastpass years ago and I tried it again recently and hate it. I didn't try the cli, though. That would certainly be a better option than dealing with their horrible web app.