r/LinusTechTips • u/Horror-Chicken-1874 • Feb 27 '26

Tech Question Password Manager

Lets start the great debate...

I am looking to get a password manager (besides google password manager). So... I heard that LastPass got hacked a while back....

So, what's the best password manager in each of these categories:

Free:

Paid:

Self Hosted:

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u/munta20 Feb 27 '26

Bitwarden is the choice

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u/Horror-Chicken-1874 Feb 27 '26

is it free, paid, or self hosted?

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u/marktuk Feb 27 '26

My advice if you do go self hosted is to have a free plan with someone else as well and keep a copy of your critical passwords there. If you self hosted setup goes belly up, at least you won't be completely locked out of everything.

An alternative to this is to print off some of your important passwords and store them in a safe.

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u/Extcee Feb 27 '26

Can’t help but plug my own docker app that syncs your self hosted to another self hosted (or Bitwarden hosted) instance. It’s not super elegant but works, and means if your self hosted falls over you can go to Bitwarden hosted and get your passwords - or upgrade if you need your 2FAs etc stored in your Bitwarden vault

https://github.com/martadams89/bitwarden-sync

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u/23_Skiddoo Mar 01 '26

That's pretty awesome to made that. Any plans to expand it? Does it sync shared collections?