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Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

> Bitwarden also allows storing TOTP to password entries - and there is
> even a community server which you can host on your own machine, if you
> want:
> 
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.x8bit.bitwarden>
> 
> <https://bitwarden.com/self-hosted-password-manager-on-premises/>
> 
> And Vaultwarden is a compapatible open source server for Bitwarden clients:
> 
> <https://www.vaultwarden.net>

I use Bitwarden as a password manager mostly because sites have begun to
use Javascript to add the input login fields after page load which is
too late for password managers built into web browsers.  Plus it gives
me the same password vault across web browsers across different hosts.
I'm using the free version.

However, when I looked at Bitwarden as an authenticator, TOTP was a paid
feature.  See:

https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

$10/year is cheap, but not free.  If I later decide to incorporate a
Yubikey 5 at $55 hoping to automate all this security theater (get me
out of the loop, and speed up authentication to minimize interruption to
logins), I'd probably go with a paid (Premium) Bitwarden account.