Hello everybody,

I’m looking for a password manager that I can share with the three other associates in my company. I often hear people around here talk about KeePass and Bitwarden, but I found several different options for each and I’m not sure how to choose. I’m not that tech-savvy : our main focus is stone and low-carbon construction, and my personal passion is understanding what happens when a joint between stones fails…

Our needs are :

  • We share several accounts that use a common email address. When a password is changed, it needs to be updated automatically for everyone.

  • We also have individual accounts. It’s not an issue if other associates can see those passwords, as they’re strictly for professional use.

  • We need the passwords to be synchronized across devices, so we’re willing to pay for a suitable solution.

Any help is welcome !

Edit :

First, thanks for all the answers.

After reading all the contributions I realised that for the moment we need something that works out of the box as we don’t have a freelancer to help us anymore. When we find one we will consider changing the password manager, and many other things !

I will try to make a table with the pro and cons of the various solutions I will study from now on and to post it here.

So with all the insights my new criteria are :

  • various vaults (one shared, and individual ones),
  • Probably european,
  • Low maintenance : works out of the box, synchronised by the provider (for the moment)

again, thanks a lot. I’ll keep you updated

Edit 2 :

I made a comparison table of the solutions hosted by the provider analysed so far :

Name Proton Pass 1Password Padloc Bitwarden Dashlane Passbolt
Essentials Business Team Team business
Shared vault Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Company location Switzerland Canada Germany US France Luxembourg
Company server provider Proton Amazon DigitalOcean Microsoft Azure Amazon GCP (google)
Open source Yes Not clear Yes Yes Partially yes
Linux client Yes Yes Yes Yes No yes
Price / user 4.99 € 6.99 € 3.49 € 4.00 € 6.00 € 4.5€

To be clear, I don’t use linux… yet. But I will probably not use it at work before a long time

Edit 3 : I updated the table with passbolt.

Passbolt enterprise is hosted in their own server, but the business version is hosted by google

  • Broken@lemmy.ml
    16·
    2 days ago

    I vote for bitwarden. I’ve used it for years and think its one of the best password managers.

    At my work we use roboform. Its functional and not a bad choice, but bitwarden is better IMO.

    • ki9@lemmy.gf4.pwEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I have been using vaultwarden, which is a rust implementation of bw.

      The guy that ported bw to rust originally named it “bitwarden-rust” until he got a copyright letter from bw saying not to use their name. Guy makes no money from the project but complied and renamed it to vaultwarden.

      Point is, I’m not promoting vaultwarden because I’m obsessed with rust… It’s just that I suspect that bw will soon decide that they have enough users and it’s time to enshittify for profit.

      • Broken@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’m aware of vaultwarden and am considering self hosting my password manager. I literally almost installed it this weekend.

        I’m also aware of the shifts bitwarden has made to their open source roots that might change the future of the product. I do think they will focus on enterprise for profit and that leaves the consumer base in limbo, but I’m not necessarily convinced that will be “soon”. I still think today bitwarden is one of the best out of the box solutions.

        But to your point, yes I think that path is the one most orgs take as they grow.