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Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by dangom on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:18PM (#21175558)
Very interesting. Has anyone been using it as a daily driver and could comment of safety, reliability and browser integration? How well do they behave compared to e.g. 1Password?
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by dragosiulian on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:26PM (#21175611)
I’m a very happy user (Firefox and iOS). Switched from LastPass about a year ago (found it on hacker news back then) and never looked back. I can’t compare it to 1Password, since I never used it.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by dorchadas on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:17AM (#21177403)
I switched from LastPass today, and already liking it a bit more. Not as slow and doesn't slow down on forms, for one!
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by philliphaydon on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:52PM (#21176922)
I switched from 1Password to bitwarden. I feel like the browser plugin is a better experience for me. At work I set it to require 2factor to authenticate to use and at home only require my password. On my iPhone it uses faceid or thumb depending on phone model.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by slimginz on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:27PM (#21175616)
Switched to it after the most recent data problems with LastPass. It’s pretty good for me overall. The app and browser plugins are very similar but you do drop the icon on the right of text fields you can click to auto fill (There is an auto fill option but it’s in beta and slightly buggy). Overall though, I’m happy with it especially since it’s open sourced.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by codewritinfool on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:28AM (#21179963)
Me too. Also, there are some sites where LastPass could never manage to find the login fields and didn't fill them correctly or at all. I've yet to see Bitwarden screw this up.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by JshWright on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:28PM (#21175628)
I use it daily on Linux, Android, and OS X (Firefox on both desktop platforms). It works great for me. My wife and I share an "organization" that holds credentials we both need (banking, etc).
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by RexM on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:32PM (#21175658)
Switched about two years ago from LastPass and I haven’t had any issues.

I have the Firefox extension and use the iOS app, also. Chrome extension works well, too when I need it, but I don’t use Chrome often.

You can self-host it since it’s open source if you’re worried about their servers shutting down for whatever reason.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by duiker101 on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:31AM (#21178045)
I too made the switch from LastPass and I find Bitwarden heaps better in every single aspect. More reliable autofil, better UI and better mobile app.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by koevet on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:41AM (#21179648)
Switched one year ago from 1Password. I'm self-hosting the bitwarden_rs implementation written in rust (https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs).

PROS:

- no issues whatsoever. The rust implementation is rock solid.

- I have clients for Android, Linux, OSX, Windows and browser plugin for every browser I use. Again, a friction-less experience.

- I was able to import my 1Password vault into Bitwarden without issues

CONS:

- Android client is quite slow compared to 1Password

- The Firefox plugin on OSX tends to freeze Firefox. Not so much an issue for me anymore, since I moved to Linux

- The bitwarden_rs server does not support multiple users

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by Unklejoe on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:47AM (#21180103)
> The bitwarden_rs server does not support multiple users

I'm confused by this. I'm running bitwarden_rs and I have two users? Perhaps they just recently added support for multiple users? I've only been running it for a few weeks.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by ViViDboarder on Monday October 07, 2019 @09:59AM (#21180848)
Nope, not recent. I’ve been using it for about nearly a year and it’s supported multiple users the whole time. Not sure what OP is referring to.

Edit: I should note, I’m talking about Bitwarden_rs. Maybe the official one doesn’t? That’s be strange though given it supposedly the same one the hosted version is running with a license lock on some features.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by fbnlsr on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:59AM (#21178465)
Browser integration is great. There a a few sites in which it can't autocomplete, and I wish I had the ability to "program" it like you can do on KeePassXC. In KeePassXC, you can specify a chain of commands in a string, with hardcoded elements, like "{USERNAME}{TAB}1979-05-22{TAB}{PASSWORD}", and it's really good. The Android app work really well too.

Apart from that, it's been audited, and praised on HN multiple times.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by DeadBabyOrgasm on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:51PM (#21197677)
100% my favorite function of KeePassXC right there. It's unfortunately not very well highlighted in their docs even though it's the killer feature which keeps me with KeePass databases.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by shazow on Sunday October 06, 2019 @08:54PM (#21176351)
Love it. By far the best fully cross-platform experience (including Linux) of any alternative, with great independent self-hosted server implementations.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by shafyy on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:14AM (#21179160)
I used 1Password before (and my old company still does), and use now Bitwarden with my new company.

I would say they are similar, but I always had problems with 1Password's syncing across clients. Not sure if they resolved that in the meantime.

What I like also about Bitwarden is that it's open-source, and in general the UI feels more light-weight and performant.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by croon on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:12AM (#21178831)
Switched almost 3 years ago from LastPass.

They've done an external audit, and I've studied the architecture, but other than that I can't speak for it's safety. But it seems legit in all ways I can imagine.

As for reliability and browser integration it's much better than anything I've tested prior. Works great on all platforms I use.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by kerpele on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:27PM (#21175624)
I use on Mac (Firefox & Safari) and iPhone, wife uses on Mac (chrome) and Android. Neither has had any issues in the past year and a half outside of mild confusion about the new Safari extension after Apple removed support for the old extension format.
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by StavrosK on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:31PM (#21175976)
I'm a moderately happy user, no issues here. I switched from KeePass because the latter didn't have good browser integration, but if that got better since I last saw it, I wouldn't switch now.

I do like BitWarden's TOTP support, though.

Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by jammygit on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:21PM (#21175576)
Good Linux support and no issues
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager by ohadron on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:23AM (#21178010)
Using now for about two years and happy with the integration with Chrome & iOS.