If I'm going to have to host my own infrastructure, I don't want it tied to Bitwarden, given the new direction of the company.

I fully support Vaultwarden though, and I wish them well.

I'll be going with KeyPassXC and Syncthing.

I'm. Using Vaultgarden but its not clear if the Android app will still be available.

Vaultwarden (and all the client apps) depend on Bitwarden for the API spec. If Bitwarden introduces closed features in the API that Vaultwarden can't/won't implement, but the client apps do, it will split the spec. They can also introduce API license keys, which would render Vaultwarden mostly irrelevant.

The only way for Vaultwarden to remain relevant going forward is to own it and split ways from Bitwarden. This would in turn mean that the FOSS client apps have to decide which to support. But I think the ecosystem is going to fragment eventually anyway, so the sooner every app decides which way they want to go, the better.

You can use KeePass on mobile, look for KeePassDX on fdroid.

So basically they were getting undercut by people reselling the same a services under a different name.

No, that would GPL. The benefit for them is that some features will be paid and won't be unlockable just by using Vaultwarden

I had done that for a long time. It worked until it didn't and I lost passwords. I tried again with keepass2android and it's built-in sync. It again worked fine until at some point it wasn't able to sync anymore for no discernible reason. I'd love for this to be a reliable setup, but it just isn't in my experience, at least when there are 3+ devices involved with different clients and no proper awareness of the password manager and the sync sides of each other.

I just wish Syncthing didn't have such a convoluted port usage, and also that its Android usage didn't revolve around an unofficial app.

So I'll stick to apps that do sync over SSH (using FolderSync atm).

I used keepass but switched to vaultwarden, i might consider switching back, but is there a good self hostable web front end for a keepass database? (I need to access it on my work laptop and can't install stuff there)

That's my stack, except swap keepassdx for keepass2android, and add the Firefox plugin.

Yup great combo. It baffles me why anyone one would favour to depend oneself on an online service instead

Every single time Bitwarden is mentioned on the internet, someone comes in here and proudly recites the anthem “I have been using Keep ass with sink things”

It sucks compared to a dedicated extension.

No autofill No TOTP or 2FA support Doesn’t do passkeys Doesn’t have organizational sharing Doesn’t sync to mobile devices Doesn’t integrate with mobile browsers without trusting some compatible 3rd party app Requires selfhosting your passwords (don’t fuck it up!)

It’s actually pretty sad that the open source world doesn’t have a better solution for this. I mean I guess BitWarden was it but that’s been stolen by venture capital so

I've been using that for a while. I like the control I have in that I understand where everything is stored and encrypted. I miss the way that Google password manager had the autofill for seemingly every page nailed though.

That or jump to Vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

A viable concern if you wanted to put it public-facing. If you only care about syncing when you're home, though, you should be able to host it perfectly fine just not giving any pathways in from the outside world.

If you wanted to use the Android application, you would have to learn about TLS certificates anyway, because it doesn't work without HTTPS.

They don't make any money off of the open source version. It is just a matter of the before they "discontinue" the open source version and move to source available.

If you have any doubts just look at Redis, Vagrant or Terraform