Self-Hosted Password Managers
A password vault is some of your most sensitive data. Self-hosted password managers keep the encrypted vault on a server you control while keeping the everyday features — browser extensions, mobile autofill and team sharing.
How to choose
- Compatibility with a mature client ecosystem (for example, Vaultwarden works with the official Bitwarden apps)
- The encryption model and audits: is it end-to-end encrypted, and are third-party audit reports public?
- Support for teams and permissions, passkeys and TOTP codes
Recommended software
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Password manager dedicated for managing passwords in a collaborative way. One symmetric key is used to encrypt all shared/team passwords and stored server side in a file and the database. works on any server Apache, MySQL and PHP.
End-to-end encrypted password manager with a built-in email alias generator and server.
Simple password manage with sharing features by group and user, but no administration interface.
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