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While we're on the subject of password managers ... I'm still looking for one with decent multi-user & group support, with audit trails, which is self-hosted. Bitwarden sounded promising, but I'm put off by their MS based stack and their pricing model. Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "their MS based stack", but if it is not about the build tools (.net etc), but about them hosting on azure: Bitwarden can be selfhosted just fine on Linux. https://github.com/bitwarden/server#linux--macos

Unless it's changed since I looked at it, it requires MS SQL Server, which does run on linux, but isn't FOSS, and is very expensive to license if you aren't already using it.

SQL Server has a no-cost edition, SQL Server Express. This addresses only the free as in beer side of your comment.

Not suggesting this as an argument for you to adopt BW, but just as an FYI.

> and is very expensive to license if you aren't already using it.

Not FOSS, but the express edition is free as in beer and the limits should not matter at all for bitwarden (I think the main one is max 10 GB). I prefer KeepassXC + Keepass2Android + Nextcloud though ;)

There's an alternative implementation of the bitwarden server in Rust:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

That along with their CLI utility is what killed Bitwarden for me.

It is absolutely horrendous, mostly due to being written in NodeJS, AFAICT ("when your only tool is a hammer..."?).

Bitwarden-rs is an open source project that implements a bitwarden compatible backend as a self-contained binary (implemented in Rust)

I just set this up this weekend in a container at home, on my Synology box.

Nice thing about Bitwarden-rs is you get a lot of the "premium" features for free with it. For example: Yubikey, U2F, and Duo support.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

The company I work for has used CorporateVault for years, but it is unfortunately a dead project and relied on Java and Flash to work properly. I've been looking for a replacement for some time but all the contenders seem to have cloud bullshit, are overengineered, and/or can't integrate with AD.

Once Flash support is dropped for good I'm probably going to be stuck writing a replacement.

Can you please say more on what you mean by MS based stack? It runs on azure?

Probably the underlying stack.

From https://github.com/bitwarden/server#requirements:

   Requirements

   .NET Core 3.1 SDK
   SQL Server 2017

Well you can run SQL Server on Linux if you wanted

It's not a recommendation because I haven't tried it but I recently learnt about TeamPass : https://teampass.net

I'm been considering jumping to bitwarden

What don't you like about their pricing model?

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