Pass or qtpass if you need gui. Simple and efficient.
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If you use nextcloud, especially for your friends and family, the passwords app is really good there. Plenty of apps and plugins available to use it everywhere.
Keeper, myself. Work gives me a free/subsidized family plan so sure I’ll take it.
Definitely better than Lastpass.
Authpass. Store offline or in their cloud. Works on multiple types of devices. Has autofill
I recently moved my family from 1Password to Bitwarden. They're not tech savvy at all and haven't really noticed a difference aside from that "the password vault looks different".
Again, they're not tech savvy so they don't really use any specific 1Password features. They're also not constantly adding or removing logins, so Bitwarden has been pretty easy for them.
When is recently? Would be good to know how Long they used it
When is recently?
I checked my email just to be sure. So looks like I migrated my family in August 2024. Ah. Actually, further back than I thought.
So my mom, dad, wife, and me have been using Bitwarden for a little over a year without any issues.
My wife is a macOS user (for now...) and she's totally fine with Bitwarden. She doesn't care about password managers. It's just some random app that saves passwords to her. She probably wouldn't remember if she's using 1Password or Bitwarden. My wife occasionally will add logins to Bitwarden.
My parents were macOS users—now they're on Fedora Silverblue for 2 months!—but they're even less technical than my wife. They don't know what OS they're running or what a password manager app is. They just know wolf icon = internet, shield icon = passwords. They don't add or remove passwords. I added their 5 website logins and that's all they need.
Firefox
Can't tell if serious.
Give me reasons to not use firefox's pw manager and I'll jump back to bitwarden
Built-in password managers in software like browsers and operating systems are sometimes not as good as dedicated password manager software. The advantage of a built-in password manager is good integration with the software, but it can often be very simple and lack privacy and security features that standalone offerings have.
For example, the password manager in Microsoft Edge doesn't offer end-to-end encryption at all. Google's password manager has optional E2EE, and Apple's offers E2EE by default.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/passwords/
Why is the built-in password manager disabled?
Use a external password manager, it’s more secure.
As a general rule, browser based password storage is less secure than a standalone offering. While convenient, Firefox loads the cipher into memory. and stores passwords in a local file (logins.json) encrypted with 3DES (older versions) or AES (newer), using a key derived from an optional primary password. Without a primary password, Firefox uses a blank key, making it trivially decryptable. Even with one, decryption occurs locally but lacks the layered, zero-knowledge design of something like Bitwarden. This makes Firefox stored passwords more vulnerable to something like a virus outbreak on your computer, which can access your Firefox stored passwords.
This is how I understand it. If someone has better intel, or if I need schooled up, do share.
Even if all the rest were true, what virus outbreak would affect me on Linux?
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Used it for years before switching to bitwarden (because I needed more? I dont remember).
Absolutely usable and maybe the best browser pw Manager.
Also using one is better than none