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 :
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We share several accounts that use a common email address. When a password is changed, it needs to be updated automatically for everyone.
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We also have individual accounts. It’s not an issue if other associates can see those passwords, as they’re strictly for professional use.
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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


@Sirius006 I personally use BitWarden and it works perfectly; there is also ProtonPass, in case you want to buy European
I didn’t realize it when I posted, but after the feedback, I think I’ll buy European, which unfortunately rules out the best options mentioned so far in this thread. Protonpass is probably the best option so far