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So many answers for Bitwarden but I too will agree. It's my go-to ever since I've found out about it, I don't know any of my passwords apart from my Bitwarden vault master password tbh.

What are my thoughts on a password manager?

I think it’s both a good thing, and a crutch. I feel the fact that most services are rendered unusable without an account is sad, and with the 100’s of accounts one is expected to have a password manager is sadly needed if you can’t memorize a password or can make passwords with a consistent pass phrase.

Do I use one?

Nope, I have a password system which is good enough for most accounts that’s always more than 7 character long and unique for each account without being lost to me. The only time it has failed as when my work decided to have us change our passwords every quarter, and I ran out of password ideas.

1Password family account for my partner and I. Super handy to have a shared vault for household things.

I prefer a password with pronounceable content of nonsense words, separated by dashes, with some numbers and symbols in there somewhere. Such as: tostog-Meenish-flurbit-dalsag-3023# . It's long enough to be very secure, and easy to transcribe if I have to type it. None of the words are in a dictionary. I keep a big list in a note on my desktop, and peel'em off as needed, finally keeping the utilized PWs in Enpass.

Yes, and Bitwarden. Strong master password, with 2FA, and randomly generated passwords for the rest. For deeply personal apps such as banking I do have another localized system though. I moved on from LastPass and never looked back.

KeePass is the perfect tool for me ! The cybersecurity practice at work also use it,

Been using KeePass for years since I couldn't keep track of every single random passphrase I have. And yes, I recommend it highly.

So happy I got 1Password set up and it has treated me right during the years I’ve used it. I wish my parents had such a thing. They have all the passwords written on a sheet of paper that sits under the keyboard. Like the digital version of car keys up in the visor.

Been using the keepass format with varying applications for about 14 years. I used to host it in SVN repo for that sweet sweet cloud access! Not that smart im retrospec.. I feel like you shouldnt trust your passwords to the cloud, especially if their thing is password management. Last pass for example is under constant battery from attackers.

I love using 1Password!

I use Firefox's built in password manager because its crossplatform and I can use it on all my devices.

Keepassxc for storage/backup and then I let the browser save the passwords I use. I like this setup.

You should really use a password manager so you always have a secure and different password for each site

I recommend KeePass if you want to save your password locally

Or if you want something cloud based then I recommend Bitwarden You can even host your own instance

I used to use BitWarden but switched to 1Password about a year ago once I decided to buy a business account for my department at work (which gives every user a free family account)

1Password is fantastic. It stores more than passwords, it's fine tuned to do that, but really can be used to store anything securely. The dev team uses it to share secure .env variables and API keys for example.

One of the best features though is the ability to share secured links to VIEW passwords outside of your network. When a coworker asks me to share an account password I don't just copy and paste the username and password over email. I click share in 1Password and shoot them a link that only they can view (using email 2fa). I can also make more open links to shared credentials that expire (or until I expire those links myself).

The phone app works great and once you get it set up on one device it's easy to configure it on others.

Use whatever but also use 2fa as well for every important account that you have.

My goto is KeePass. Does everything I need. I like the use of hotkeys and the ability to have complete control over how the autotype works. Plus if you have a fingerprint scanner (phone or laptop or something) you can use autotype with that too. And the program is completely free.

Started with LastPass, used it for 10 years. Switched to Bitwarden a while ago, would never go back.

Switched to bitwarden last October and couldn't be happier. Was previously just storing everything in chrome/my Google account. Reused the same password on pretty much every website. When I saw a few articless about chrome causing issues with ad blockers I decided to switch to Firefox which meant having to figure out my passwords. Decided that was a great time to figure out a separate password manager. I still occasionally run into websites I don't use often that still have my old password but for the most part everything is switched over and if 2FA is an option I have it set up. Going through my main sites was a drag but I felt so much better afterwards. I was really shocked at how many websites have really low limits on password length. And how some of the accounts I would really really prefer to have 2FA it's not even an option, looking at you banks.

My work actually just switched payroll companies and when creating my account I noticed the password field was 0/127 so of course I bumped up my password generator to 127 and maxed out the password field 😂

I use KeePassXC and synchronise it with syncthing. This allows me to keep it off devices I have no control over (OneDrive servers) and also allows me to have per device version history.

I’d say they’re pretty much necessary so you can have unique, complex passwords.

I’m currently test driving Proton’s new password manager, I’ve been using 1Password for ages.

After using one for like 8 years I really don't know how people have the time/energy to make up and remember all their own passwords

I use KeePass (more specifically KeePassXC). I manually copy my password files around like a caveman but I don't mind. At least my kdbx files are not accessible easily.

I've been a KeePass user for over a decade and it's always been good to me, especially when using Box and OneDrive to sync it between devices. The ecosystem is great with enough plugins and support to make it fit your use case on any modern OS.

Can't recommend it enough. Especially over other options that are offered by a commercial company (LastPass for example). Not only because you're intently placing your trust in them to not expose your data and keep it secure, but also because you're giving them a lot of leverage to turn around and hold your passwords for ransom at some point in the future (when they IPO for instance, as a popular example) or lock you out after they fold for whatever reason.

I've used LastPass in the past but now I use bitwarden, gets the job done

Started off with Lastpass free tier, then after they limited the free tier to only one device, switched to Bitwarden.

Bitwarden, open-source, free, and awesome!!!!!

If you are not using a password manager you are doing it wrong.

Loved bitwarden but switched to 1Password recently because their UI is so much nicer. ik, weird reason.

also because it was free with GitHub Student.

Bitwarden is great and I don't know how I could live without it anymore.

Well, shit. I don't use a password manager but now I feel like I should lol. Gonna check out bitwarden I guess.

Any security researcher worth there salt says to use one .Not sure what the question is. Bitwarden and 1pass are general good recommendations.

It’s 1Password for me. Looks good, works good and is available for every platform that I use.

For work I use KeepasXC and Bitwarden+Vaultwarden as well.

KeePass. Putting your passwords on someone else's webserver is just asking for trouble.

I can't imagine not having a password manager. I even got my mom to switch to bitwarden. I'm not sure if I just don't know how to do it, but the only thing I wish I could do with bitwarden is share a password with another bitwarden user.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android

Been using this for years. Hosted via ssh on my server in a ovh data center. Fingerprint access and every single account with a random password.

1Password for years, never had any issues.

My mom would use the same password for everything or she would mix it up a little tiny bit.

Her passwords were like.

Rainbow2002! rainbow2003 RAINBOW!!!

It was a different word from rainbow, but that's just an example.

I got her using two factor with Google with a really good password and she's using the built-in Google password manager. Now all of her passwords are 20+ random strings instead of a single word with different numbers at the end.

I think that's a much better system than what she was using before.