How Simple? don't want much

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Simply stated “I want a vault”… currently I keep numerous passwords (and none at all auto populate anything at all, not interested in something autopopulating from my desktop, I DO NOT use many passwords off my mobile (android) phone at all, just about never) in an application more like a ‘contact manager’ than a vault. It is a weak link and I need to decide on a vault. So IF ALL I want to do is store passwords in a secure environment (vs anything else fancy AND I DO NOT WANT SOME APP trying to change my passwords to something ‘more secure’ - that cannot be automated? Is it?) is BitWarden compatible with those needs? Very much appreciate input. Thank you.

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Hi Roger, can you provide more detail on what you are looking for? If you’re looking for a secure vault to store your credentials, without using any auto-filling capabilities, you can absolutely do that.

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That’s about it… store passwords in a secure app as a fall back… I would only want to recover if my main system went down. So “secure” and “recoverable” would cover it? Thanks

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Thanks Roger, Bitwarden can store and you can export vault data at any time. Does that answer your question, or is there something specific that you are looking for?

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Yeah, so the ‘export’ is to your servers (I intend to buy the individual basic app)… off mine, cloud?
Thanks

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You can export a backup of your vault to a file. You would then store this file the way you would any other sensitive document, e.g. an encrypted USB stick, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage, etc. Optionally, you can encrypt the backup file using your master password.

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Any modern password manager can do what you ask. None of them are going to try to change your passwords or fill in a web login if you don’t ask them to. For your very modest needs, I think you will also probably find more settings and options than you need in any password manager as well, since typical user wants a little more than you.

Allowing the password manager to fill the login credentials can be more secure than typing them in yourself, since it protects against phishing / man-in-the-middle attacks (the password manager won’t fill in the credentials if you are not on the site that you have listed for these credentials).

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Thank you one and all. I have downloaded Bit and will begin to use it. Appreciate the input.
Everyone had a ‘solution’… wasn’t a hard question ;^) thank you.

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