Hello everybody,
I’m looking for a password manager that I can share with the three other associates in my company. I often hear people around here talk about KeePass and Bitwarden, but I found several different options for each and I’m not sure how to choose. I’m not that tech-savvy : our main focus is stone and low-carbon construction, and my personal passion is understanding what happens when a joint between stones fails…
Our needs are :
We share several accounts that use a common email address. When a password is changed, it needs to be updated automatically for everyone.
We also have individual accounts. It’s not an issue if other associates can see those passwords, as they’re strictly for professional use.
We need the passwords to be synchronized across devices, so we’re willing to pay for a suitable solution.
Any help is welcome !
Edit :
First, thanks for all the answers.
After reading all the contributions I realised that for the moment we need something that works out of the box as we don’t have a freelancer to help us anymore. When we find one we will consider changing the password manager, and many other things !
I will try to make a table with the pro and cons of the various solutions I will study from now on and to post it here.
So with all the insights my new criteria are :
again, thanks a lot. I’ll keep you updated
Edit 2 :
I made a comparison table of the solutions hosted by the provider analysed so far :
| Name | Proton Pass | 1Password | Padloc | Bitwarden | Dashlane | Passbolt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Business | Team | Team | business | ||
| Shared vault | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Company location | Switzerland | Canada | Germany | US | France | Luxembourg |
| Company server provider | Proton | Amazon | DigitalOcean | Microsoft Azure | Amazon | GCP (google) |
| Open source | Yes | Not clear | Yes | Yes | Partially | yes |
| Linux client | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | yes |
| Price / user | 4.99 € | 6.99 € | 3.49 € | 4.00 € | 6.00 € | 4.5€ |
To be clear, I don’t use linux… yet. But I will probably not use it at work before a long time
Edit 3 : I updated the table with passbolt.
Passbolt enterprise is hosted in their own server, but the business version is hosted by google
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I use 1Password at work. It pretty much ticks your boxes. With 1Password, a collection of passwords are referred to as a vault.
As the OP mentioned, it “just works” with everything.
My only gripes with it is that it’s a bit cumbersome to log into the website (you basically have two passwords, plus mfa)… but if you’ve got the browser extension installed, it’s painless. The other gripe I have is, it’s tricky to have an overview of what passwords/vaults already exist. So, if you have enough people, it’s inevitable that passwords will be accidentally duplicated - and no one will have a clear idea what was duplicated and who has access to it (unless you’re a member/owner of a vault).
You mentioned you wanted something “hands-off”, I think that after the initial setup, you’d get just that.