My goal was to set up an on-premise version of Bitwarden, populate it with the current contents of my 1Password 7 vaults, and gain some experience with the interface and the sharing.
I successfully (I think) set up the on-premise server on our central Mac desktop. On my Mac laptop, I downloaded the GUI and then the CLI so I could import the 1pif files from 1Password without sending them offsite using the web form. I logged in using my same credentials (I’m assuming this login provides the system the knowledge that I am running an on-premise database and how to get to it).
I got the import command to work – it appeared to be successful because it complained about the length of a few notes (that turned out to be useless adhesion contracts I didn’t even know were in the web form data).
Then I logged in the GUI on my Mac with the same credentials, to find absolutely no data apparent in the account, anywhere.
Where the he** did I just ship all my passwords?
How do I get it attached to the normal GUI?
I went to the Docker hub to see if any sort of a stub appeared there to represent my database, but all I could find was the “example” item that installing Docker creates.
It sounds like you used the same email + password for your login at vault.bitwarden.com as you created for your local instance
Most likely, you sent the data to vault.bitwarden.com - log in and give it a look.
It’s all good though - your data is always encrypted locally before being sent to any server, regardless of where it is hosted.
[Edit] To use your self hosted instance, you’ll need to configure your clients to speak to your hosted URL, Bitwarden doesn’t save/map any data related to your self hosted instance.
Nope, they’re not at vault.bitwarden.com either, everything I can find there is empty.
Plus, I’ve discovered that my local instance was not… actually RUNNING. I need to open another thread for advice to make this work first.
I’m still buffaloed as to where my data got shipped.
I did a ./bw login with the only name and password I have set up.
It said, To unlock your vault, set your session key to the BW_SESSION environment variable. ex:...
So I did the export command, then did ./bw import 1password1pif path-to-pif-file
I got three error messages complaining about over-long Notes fields, then a ready message. So this data went SOMEWHERE.
I still have the terminal session open, if there’s any command I can issue to it to find out how things are set up.
OK, it says I’m running at bitwarden.com and the items come back NUL (I think – I get a square box).
Does the message about “Notes field exceeds 10000 characters” make the import fail? I thought it would be only a warning. But if causes the entire import to fail, then that’s exactly what happened.
I need to open another thread for advice to make this work first.