Tuesday 12 April 2022

Password Manager 2

Having previously decided to try out Syspass, I must say I'm disappointed.

In terms of the broad design it gets a lot of things right. But the implementation is particularly poor and buggy. It is built as a single page application and if you accidentally hit the back button or close your window then its rather painful to get back to your session (at least as something you can interact with). Operations will randomly fail then succeed when re-invoked. The permissions/access model around the API make it unsuitable for integration with clients in most cases. And the browser plugin would not work at all for me.

I'm still using it just now - it's better than the spreadsheet it replaced. And I've gone to the trouble of writing scripts to very the passwords and export the data to Keepass

I was excited to learn of VaultWarden - and open source implementation of BitWarden. The current version would not compile on Ubuntu 20.04LTS (required newer version of Rust) so I tried out the docker version. The software has no support for user groups which would make policy management an enormous job.

Why is this so hard people!