How do website owners keep track of all credentials efficiently?

liquardo · Jul 26, 2023

Yesterday when I was creating my 50th tab in notepad++ to save some new hosting credentials, I started wondering how other developers and website owners keep track of their credentials and details for hosts, admin panels, etc. Is a subscription service like LastPass just a necessary evil once you start getting too many different accounts and services?

How do you guys keep track of all your accounts and passwords?

Ashk881 · Jul 26, 2023

liquardo said:
How do you guys keep track of all your accounts and passwords?

You already said it yourself, with a password manager. And an authenticator app for 2FA

You don't need some subscription service like LastPass (tho it has a lot of features other than password management too). There are free ones out there.

Bitwarden is free and self hosted. Firefox accounts can store accounts and passwords for you (tho I don't recommend stuff on the cloud), there's several other free and open source ones.

liquardo · Jul 26, 2023

Ashk881 said:
You already said it yourself, with a password manager. And an authenticator app for 2FA

You don't need some subscription service like LastPass (tho it has a lot of features other than password management too). There are free ones out there.

Bitwarden is free and self hosted. Firefox accounts can store accounts and passwords for you (tho I don't recommend stuff on the cloud), there's several other free and open source ones.

Yeah seems like I have to start migrating over to such services, I guess I've been ignoring them due to hating the idea of adding another subscription service to the long list, which you would most likely get you 'locked in' the service as you have all your passwords in the same place.

However I never heard of Bitwarden and just checked it out and it seems fantastic, I will definitely give it a whirl before anything else. Thanks for the tip!

medeu · Jul 26, 2023

What's wrong with using notepad? It's just a couple of credientials you have to keep track of for each site.

shady185 · Jul 26, 2023

You can use Bitwarden. It is free and open source. Comes with a chrome extension and an Android app as well. They might have an iOS app too but I have not checked it.

Ashk881 · Jul 26, 2023

liquardo said:
nother subscription service to the long list, which you would most likely get you 'locked in' the service as you have all your passwords in the same place.

Btw, password managers will let you export your credentials as a CSV file so migrating to another is easy enough.

medeu said:
What's wrong with using notepad? It's just a couple of credientials you have to keep track of for each site.

- it doesn't sync with other services.
- it stores passwords in a plain text file, which password managers don't. They store it as an encrypted file.
- it doesn't autofill forms in your browser.

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