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I'm still rocking Keepass after nearly ten years now. I've tried Lastpass, and found it clunky/fiddly in comparison.

I've been a KeePass user for at least as long. Sharing it with my wife and my multiple computers was done via Dropbox. I switched a couple of months back to self-hosted bitwarden. It is _much_ better. No need for file sync. Better UI. My wife actually _uses_ it now, as opposed to before she would avoid keepass. With Bitwarden, you get better control over passwords and who can see them and all that. Bitwarden also will host for you if that is not your jam. I highly encourage adoption of Bitwarden :)

How do you share passwords between people with keepass?

I've done this in a team in the past and we just put the encrypted keepass database in a private github repo. It mostly works out fine, the only pain in the butt is everyone needs to ensure that they pull down their repo and make sure its all up to date before they add anything to it.

Google drive seems to work fine here. I believe there's also a plugin for it rather than save to the folder and deal with the rare save conflicts.

(This with 2 factor passphrase and key file, btw)

We use Dropbox. We all memorise the master password, then have the Keepass database in a shared Dropbox directory we all have access to.

How do you make sure you don't overwrite people's saves?

Surely this can't work for a larger organisation?

Looks like it can reconcile this automatically.

https://keepass.info/help/v2/sync.html

Probably better used with a filesystem that has strong guarantees though.

Yeah you get a popup if somebody changes the database while you have it open

You should use this: https://pleasantsolutions.com/passwordserver

Got it. Yeah we did that for a bit, but it became apparent soon enough that we actually needed different access levels and keeping track of three or four different databases & passwords just didn't seem practical.

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