How are you storing passwords and 2FA keys that proliferate across every conceivable online service these days?

What made you choose that solution and have you considered what would happen in life altering situations like, hardware failure, theft, fire, divorce, death?

If you’re using an online solution, has it been hacked and how did that impact you?

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    KeePass, and more specifically the KeePassXC (desktop) and KeePassDX (Android) ports.

    My wife and I have shared a single KeePass database for about 15 years now and I couldn’t imagine switching to anything else.

    My reasons have remained the same over the years:

    • Free and open source
    • Offline (but supports cloud sync)
    • Lightweight
    • Cross platform
    • Supports autofill

    I would never entrust the management of my credentials to a 3rd party online service. They’re an easy target (it’s only a matter of when, not if they are breached), and they could go out of business at any time.

    We don’t use cloud storage for anything these days, but we keep the KP database (and many other things) synced across more than 7 devices using SyncThing, another amazing FOSS project.

    • chip@feddit.rocks
      3·
      4 months ago

      Piggybacking on the comment. I also use syncthing to sync my keepass containers. Have you encountered duplication of database files (e.g. filename-sync-conflict-*), and if so, how have you solved them? I simply merge the files through KeepassXC when it happens.

      • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        That used to happen to us before we started using SyncThing (and before we had data plans on our phones).

        By the time we migrated to it, we had a home server running 24/7 and this ensured that at least one device in the chain was always online, had the latest version of the database, and pushed it to other devices as they came online. Our phones also have data plans now, so things generally sync in realtime which helps avoid issues.

        If you don’t have at least one always-online device, I think the next easiest way to avoid sync conflicts is to modify the database from one designated device. That way even if a conflict does arise, you’ll know which device is always correct.

        For resolving the conflicts, I would open both databases, sort by modified, and review the latest changes in each.