Currently our office is a mostly Mac shop (yay) and we’ve used a shared keychain on a shared drive (Dropbox) as a common repository for storing of credentials - common ones like the credentials for test systems etc.
Lately we’ve had a few new staff and someone are on PCs so they cannot access these credentials. We’ve also moved to OneDrive corporate wide and we’ve had some issues with duplicate / conflict saves of the keychains on OneDrive, so we are looking to a cross platform tool for teams to store passwords. Being a big corporate now - we will have hoops to jump through to get software approved so I’m wondering what suggestions people have for this task?
If looking to keep using a similar setup, I’d switch to a Keepass file, synced by Dropbox. The Mac users can use MacPass and the Windows users can use Keepass or whatever client they prefer. If you elect to move to a more expensive solution like 1Password in the future, export/import is pretty easy.
I would not consider the expense of a few $ over the security of the files.
The teams version allows a much better control over who has access to what.
Also hosting on the iCloud server is a bit more secure then Dropbox…
Bitwarden is cheaper than 1Password (which I also like a great deal) but provides the vast majority of the necessary feature set. As for KeePass, it’s a good alternative for techies but hard to “sell” to others. By coincidence, I just issued a post about this sorta stuff:
All good points—we use teams at work ourselves. The current keychain solution’s security and portability must be working for them on some level. Hence the suggestion of a direct replacement. Dropbox can’t access Keepass content due to the encryption on the file.
Discovered that we have https://keepassxc.org available which is also cross platform.
Being a small company purchased by a larger multi-national we need to jump through hoops to get software approved, also DropBox is not a supported cloud platform - we used to be on it but now on OneDrive.
Gave it a test drive and it meets the needs so think we have a winner here. Pity I can’t export all the entries in KeyChain Access though…
