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Why self host a password manager?
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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Why not a piece of hardware instead of self hosting, cloud hosting, etc?
What do you mean?
I'm curious why your listed options are all software that runs on the internet as opposed to a piece of hardware that you connect to your devices.
Is that just because this is the self hosting community?
Well partly yes. This is a self hosted community so I asked a self hosted question.
The other part (I.e. why I haven't asked anywhere about hardware solutions) is because I am not aware of a hardware solution that could do what a software solution can do: that is, store all my passwords, credit card details, OTP codes etc and work with any service that requires a password.
If you know of a hardware solution that does the same then by all means share! I am open to alternative ideas as well.
I must have been way out of it late last night. I totally missed that you were asking why people do it and not looking for recommendations. Sorry for the spammy nonsense response to your OP.
To the latter question, I've seen devices that do OTP and FIDO in addition to basically storing arbitrary strings (e.g. your cc number).
I get harassment scolding me for using Lemmy to advertise when I mention any of the products by name, despite having no affiliation with any of them outside of being a user, but they're not hard to find if you look.
No worries, thanks for clarifying.