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Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 by teo_zero on Friday October 25, 2024 @01:32AM (#41942492)
> store the password vault in dropbox

No local backup? Do you rely on the network working all the time?

I do something similar on the mobile phone (the reasining is, if there's no network, there's nothing I need to login to) but I also keep a local copy on my laptop (that I sometimes operate with limited connectivity). Without any automatic syncing, one of the two copies will be stale.

Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 by anilakar on Friday October 25, 2024 @02:36AM (#41942782)
Back in the day we tried to sync KeePass vaults at work and ended up with a conflict about once a week, which is way too often. Not sure if other password managers have solved this.
Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 by Dylan16807 on Friday October 25, 2024 @05:33PM (#41950011)
> No local backup? Do you rely on the network working all the time?

Normal dropbox behavior keeps a copy on every computer.

Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 by teo_zero on Saturday October 26, 2024 @01:58AM (#41952883)
> Normal dropbox behavior

Ah, you mean by using some app or daemon. I excluded that possibility because on at least one of my laptops I'm not allowed to install anything, so for me "normal" behavior is using Dropbox as a container for files to download when needed.

Re:Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3 by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:08AM (#41953350)
Well if you do that then you get lots of copies! Or at least one. Just keep your finger off the delete key. If it's slightly stale on rare occasions that's not a big deal.

And the one program I've used that opens keepass files directly from dropbox servers keeps a local copy too.