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Then I will add another login on my phone, and another on my home laptop. I will add a login on my work laptop, get distracted, forget to copy or upload it. This is crucial because, using KeePassXC this kind of problem has been cropping up a lot.

#Keepassxc merge databases kdbx manual

What I was most curious to test was this: Could Vaultwarden resolve what git terms “merge conflicts”? That is to say: When two local databases go off in different directions, can I still synchronise with the server and unite them without a lot of manual fiddling?

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However, this post is written from the perspective of someone who has used a KeePass database for password storage for the past, roughly four years, across multiple clients, on- and offline and who just wishes it required less effort and manual maintenance. You do hear stories about online password managers getting breached, though. You don’t hear stories about how hackers gained access to Joe Nobody’s database on his USB drive.

In KeePassXC’s favour, there is something to be said for the security of an offline encrypted database file that you can never get with an online solution, selfhosted or not. KeePassXC has a lot of options, some of which I’m sure are missing from Vaultwarden, some of which probably supply what I thought missing from it for but were buried to deep for me to find. Note the adjective “easier”, not “superior” or “better”, in my judgment.

Vaultwarden can run as a single container (if you’re happy with the default sqlite database) and is one of the easiest selfhosting setups I can remember doing. It is, however, a pretty complicated setup – many containers talking to each other – and very much built for large organisations, not for selfhosters.

Bitwarden is the password manager advertised on every second podcast these days, after LastPass apparently dropped off the map (or maybe just focused on less techy customers?) In addition to it’s commercial cloud service form, Bitwarden is also available for selfhosting in the form of images on the Docker hub. If you don’t know Vaultwarden: It’s a password management server, written in Rust, that is compatible with Bitwarden clients. However it has also been the cause of a few, so I went looking for a practical alternative and figured I found one in Vaultwarden. It introduced me to generated passwords and entropy values, and it has managed to keep the core of my login collection safe and together. KeePassXC has been my password manager of choice for the past four years.