I'm willing to tolerate a little friction to setup syncing, but keepass has friction at almost every level.
Their importer is powerful... but I had to manually configure it to import from lastpass. Just bake that in ffs.
There is no "generate password" button on the main application screen despite that being the #2 use for a password manager behind autofilling. Instead the main screen has "find", "find entries" and "search" buttons which are all slightly different despite sounding completely redundant.
To get a browser plugin, you have to pick from a disturbingly long list, each with pros and cons, each requiring a few config steps, and none of which work as well as the cloud competition. I had random disconnections from keepass and many autofill failures.
Finally, you get to syncing, and the friction is bigger than you expect. It is not enough to set up a LAN folder; your solution needs to be able to resolve conflicts if you ever use more than one device simultaneously, otherwise you run the risk of losing changes. The most common sync solution is dropbox because that is the only mainstream cloud offering with first party support for linux, which is fine, but can still cause conflicts. The recommended way to handle this is quite convoluted[1]. Just bake that in, FFS!
>Finally, you get to syncing, and the friction is bigger than you expect. It is not enough to set up a LAN folder; your solution needs to be able to resolve conflicts if you ever use more than one device simultaneously, otherwise you run the risk of losing changes.
Would you explain what kind of a problem you see here (I mean: KeePass related)?
AFAIK syncing two KeePass database instances is based on timestamps, so losing changes made on any two copies kept/used on different devices is simply impossible if you properly use KeePass (ie. do merge them with KeePass).
Of course, if you want to have a real cloud-based password manager then KeePass (without any extension) isn't appropriate at all. But what's the purpose of comparing apples to oranges?
Their importer is powerful... but I had to manually configure it to import from lastpass. Just bake that in ffs.
There is no "generate password" button on the main application screen despite that being the #2 use for a password manager behind autofilling. Instead the main screen has "find", "find entries" and "search" buttons which are all slightly different despite sounding completely redundant.
To get a browser plugin, you have to pick from a disturbingly long list, each with pros and cons, each requiring a few config steps, and none of which work as well as the cloud competition. I had random disconnections from keepass and many autofill failures.
Finally, you get to syncing, and the friction is bigger than you expect. It is not enough to set up a LAN folder; your solution needs to be able to resolve conflicts if you ever use more than one device simultaneously, otherwise you run the risk of losing changes. The most common sync solution is dropbox because that is the only mainstream cloud offering with first party support for linux, which is fine, but can still cause conflicts. The recommended way to handle this is quite convoluted[1]. Just bake that in, FFS!
[1] https://keepass.info/help/kb/trigger_examples.html#dbsync