I’m going to move away from lastpass because the user experience is pretty fucking shit. I was going to look at 1pass as I use it a lot at work and so know it. However I have heard a lot of praise for BitWarden and VaultWarden on here and so probably going to try them out first.

My questions are to those of you who self-host, firstly: why?

And how do you mitigate the risk of your internet going down at home and blocking your access while away?

BitWarden’s paid tier is only $10 a year which I’m happy to pay to support a decent service, but im curious about the benefits of the above. I already run syncthing on a pi so adding a password manager wouldn’t need any additional hardware.

      • KeePassXC can’t be run in headless mode, and the GUI is tightly coupled to the app. You have to have all of X installed, and have a display running, to run it.

        Here’s the runtime dependencies of KeePassXC:

        linux-vdso.so.1
        libQt5Svg.so.5
        libqrencode.so.4
        libQt5Concurrent.so.5
        libpcsclite.so.1
        libargon2.so.1
        libQt5Network.so.5
        libQt5Widgets.so.5
        libbotan-3.so.5
        libz.so.1
        libminizip.so.1
        libQt5DBus.so.5
        libusb-1.0.so.0
        libQt5X11Extras.so.5
        libQt5Gui.so.5
        libQt5Core.so.5
        libX11.so.6
        libstdc++.so.6
        libm.so.6
        libgcc_s.so.1
        libc.so.6
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
        libgssapi_krb5.so.2
        libproxy.so.1
        libssl.so.3
        libcrypto.so.3
        libbz2.so.1.0
        liblzma.so.5
        libsqlite3.so.0
        libdbus-1.so.3
        libudev.so.1
        libGL.so.1
        libpng16.so.16
        libharfbuzz.so.0
        libmd4c.so.0
        libsystemd.so.0
        libdouble-conversion.so.3
        libicui18n.so.75
        libicuuc.so.75
        libpcre2-16.so.0
        libzstd.so.1
        libglib-2.0.so.0
        libxcb.so.1
        libkrb5.so.3
        libk5crypto.so.3
        libcom_err.so.2
        libkrb5support.so.0
        libkeyutils.so.1
        libresolv.so.2
        libpxbackend-1.0.so
        libgobject-2.0.so.0
        libcap.so.2
        libGLdispatch.so.0
        libGLX.so.0
        libfreetype.so.6
        libgraphite2.so.3
        libicudata.so.75
        libpcre2-8.so.0
        libXau.so.6
        libXdmcp.so.6
        libcurl.so.4
        libgio-2.0.so.0
        libduktape.so.207
        libffi.so.8
        libbrotlidec.so.1
        libnghttp3.so.9
        libnghttp2.so.14
        libidn2.so.0
        libssh2.so.1
        libpsl.so.5
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0
        libmount.so.1
        libbrotlicommon.so.1
        libunistring.so.5
        libblkid.so.1
        

        I don’t know why it links to a systemd library. Here are the runtime dependencies of rook:

        linux-vdso.so.1
        libresolv.so.2
        libc.so.6
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
        

        Don’t get me wrong: KeePassXC is one of my favorite programs. But don’t leave it running all the time, and it can’t be run on headless systems.