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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here it explains some self host options with links to “Get Started” for each:

https://bitwarden.com/help/self-host-bitwarden/

For example, here’s the link to “Linux standard deployment”

https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/

You may also want to consider not making your server available to the open internet, and instead access it only on your LAN via VPN.

[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there another client we can use with vaultwarden though? (In the scenario wgere that gets locked down)

[–] Azazel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The web interface is hosted directly by your vaultwarden interface so it’s not lockdown-able. The only things that are would be the browser extension and phone apps. Both of which are formally unnecessary because you can always just use the web interface. I’m sure if they ever locked down there’d be community versions in no time as they’re basically just web wrappers anyway.

[–] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Ah of course, perhaps i'll give that a go and see how it goes.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The apps keep a synced local copy, so if the server is down or unreachable you can still get to your passwords. That can also be locked by biometrics etc.

There's a lot of stuff that without be lost by going to just the web interface

[–] Azazel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

The web app keeps a local synced copy too btw. Biometric is fair tho

[–] Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There is an iOS app for Vaultwarden. Under that name.

https://apps.apple.com/za/app/vaultwarden-password-manager/id6799711599

Don’t see one for Android. And for the rest I just online.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

great suggestion

[–] grillme@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can I simply migrate content from Bitwarden to Vaultwarden?

I couldn't tell from looking at the faq or wiki.

[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's been a long while, but I believe you just export from Bitwarden and import into Vaultwarden.

[–] awelo@tuiter.rocks 1 points 1 week ago

@grillme @TrippyHippyDan
I would say yes. I use vaultwarden with bitwarden clients, but I don't know for sure, the best way to know is try it.....xdddd

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vaultwarden still depends on upstream bitwarden

[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only if you're using the Android app or the web browser plugin, the actual core system does not.

They could lock Bitwarden out tomorrow and Valtwarden would still work fine.

Then people would just have to write specific application and plugin if they wanted to continue to use it with no change.

The web interface would be fine.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The web interface is from bitwarden. Technically they could fork it but that would be much more work.

[–] Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No it is not, the web interface is the page you get when you browse to the swrver directly, it is very different from the Bitwarden one.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The web interface is based on bitwarden. You are thinking of the client api.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden