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.

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      3 months ago

      I see, thanks for explaining. So IIUC, rook is intended for headless systems?