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Vaultwarden while allowing family emergency access (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 hours ago by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone.

Given some recent.. issues with Bitwarden's leadership, I've been toying with Vaultwarden. It's been great, and supports pretty much everything I need.

I currently locally host the vault, but I'm realizing that this could cause problems for my family if something were to happen to me. While not technologically inept, if my server at home crashed they would have no idea how to access it, and they would lose all of the passwords.

I was thinking that a vps might be a better choice for this, possibly with some reboot automation in case of outages. That would allow them enough time to initiate the emergency access and import everything before anything happens to the passwords.

I've also got encrypted M-disc backups of the most important passwords with timestamps of when they were last set. I've demonstrated and written down instructions on how to decrypt these. Of course I also have other backups, but I doubt they'd be able to retrieve the non-physical copies of the backups.

Anyway, is that what most people here do with Vaultwarden, use a VPS with mTLS or VPN?

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I have vaultwarden on my home server and I usually visit it through it's Webinterface because the bitwarden addon for my browser breaks all the time with my vaultwarden instance.

I also have tailscale and a Headscale server so access should be VPN level secure.

I'm gonna be honest, it's quite inconvenient sometimes but it's an ok working setup.

The addon issue gives me the most headaches because it means I have to login like 10 times into the web ui and then search through the passwords every time I am building stuff on my servers.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, I haven't had an issue with the browser extension (yet). Have you considered the emergency access to your vault, or are you just letting it ride?

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I checked whether I can access the data on my disk with master password and I can, so I just setup periodical disk backups. Good enough for me, idk if that's what you mean with emergency access though.