Open Source @lemmy.ml pnutzh4x0r @lemmy.ndlug.org 4 wk. ago

Android "Password Store" client for pass discontinued

github.com Archiving Android Password Store · android-password-store Android-Password-Store · Discussion #3260

Hi, Over the past 3 years the pace of development in APS has steadily fallen off as maintainers including myself have moved on to other things. I no longer have time and motivation to dedicate to t...

Over the past 3 years the pace of development in APS has steadily fallen off as maintainers including myself have moved on to other things. I no longer have time and motivation to dedicate to this project, and in the absence of significant external contributions there is no-one else I can offer the project's stewardship to.

To that effect, I will be archiving the repository on Monday, October 14th 2024 at 7AM GST. In the situation that a serious and viable fork emerges, I will help them as much as I can with the transition. The criteria for what counts as "serious and viable" is entirely vibes-driven for now, and may become more specific in the future. In case I determine that a fork does not live up to my made up standard, they will have to come up with a slightly more creative name than "Android Password Store" and watch low 4 figures of cash wither away in OpenCollective's bank account.

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Good thing i switched to selfhosted vaultwarden setup.

Sees bitwarden drama, Noooo😭
- vaultwarden is perfectly fine. we just need to fund 3rd party clients for platforms. on android we already have keyguard, albeit it being only source available
  
  albeit it being only source available
  
  Isn't that exactly why we need to leave the official Bitwarden client for something else?
  
  Yeah vaultwarden even has its own web interface so my passwords probably not going to locked behind priopority apps. İ think i will keep using it for a while at least.
- Yeah, with all the stuff going on with password managers, I wonder if there's a truly future-proof setup that can be self-hosted and will never have these issues.
  
  I was a Keepass user many years ago, but I'm not confident that a Keepass-like system would work well with some very computer-illiterate family members. Bitwarden is hard enough to teach them, and it's one of the easy ones!
  
  There is no such solution but you could just not update your mobile app and keep using vault warden. Nothing will change for you.
This one hurts... as I use this as my password manager on mobile :{
- what are you gonna do now? i might switch to keepassxc but i don't wanna learn new stuff.
  
  I'm not sure. As long as it keeps working, I'll probably keep using it until a viable alternative appears. I use my laptop more than my phone, so I don't actually need passwords on my phone as often.
- Can recommend KeypassDX you can download it from fdroid. It is compatible with KeepassXC
  
  Anti Commercial AI thingy
  
  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
I was using this app until I created a new gpg key and OpenKeychain did not work because of this https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/issues/2886. I then installed password store inside termux and I am using it as if I am using it from my PC. That works pretty well.
- Can CLI applications inside Termux interact with the Android clipboard?
  
  https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-clipboard-set
Honestly we need to invent something better than password managers.
- Webauthn already exists.
  
  You still need to store those secrets. You would probably refer to a keychain but in the end it is still a password/secret manager.
  
  And the current implementation is not really better, services like paypal still do not allow you to use a passkey on the desktop.
  
  This is more often 2FA & a password is still needed
  
  Any self-hosted software to recommend?
- Best we have and probably will ever have on the current web. Not sure what the problem is with password managers?
  
  Personally I would never trust an app to save and manage my passwords. There are a lot of risks with it. But I still think writing down passwords on a piece of paper and storing it in a physical safe when needed is the best approach so ik nobody will understand.
- We have USB/NFC hardware security tokens, as well as OS-integrated passkeys

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