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Comment by JimBlackwood

8 hours ago

I’ve used Vaultwarden for at lesst 7 years, I’m sure for longer but I’m not sure how long.

Never had an issue with Vaultwarden itself. Restored from backups several times for a variety of reasons (migrating host, corrupt hard disk, re-installs) and that always worked first try.

In regards to hardering, the wiki has a good guide: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Hardening-Gu....

That guide is wild. By default it allows public registration, shows password hints, requires a reverse proxy for robust TLS but then passes tokens via GET params, runs in the container as root. Recommends fail2ban because it doesn't have any coverage against brute force. Recommends using a custom path for security.

This feels less like a guide on hardening Vaultwarden than a guide on why I should be skeptical about it.

  • Since it's authored by the vaultwarden collaborators, I would not trust the project any bit of my passwords.

Pretty similar experience for me, albeit I've only been managing it for about a year.

Restore from backup testing was straightforward. We haven't had any problems w/ the application itself.

I used that that hardening guide for my setup. The one I manage is exposed to the Internet and I'm bringing traffic into it via a reverse proxy.