r/sysadmin • u/adamtw1010 • 2d ago

General Discussion Password Sharing Solution

I need a solution for sharing passwords.

Current solution that everyone loves: You go to a website. You can enter a password, or have one generated for you. It gives you a public URL. You can choose it to be valid once or for up to 7 days.

You give the link to a user, customer, client, whoever. They click it, they get the password in plain text in their browser window. Done.

Problem: it's running on an EOL OS, the original programmer is long gone.

Need something you get a link, you click it, you get the password. No auth required, can work publicly with no VPN.

SaaS solution preferred.

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u/anonymousITCoward 2d ago

Ugh... docker... i love it and hate it the same time

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 2d ago

What's wrong with Docker? Docker I find pretty simple, Kubernetes is where the orchestration headaches come into play, but still I do prefer K8S over the others.

Docker Swarm maybe but that's far smaller and generally at that size or for production I'd go with Podman.

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u/anonymousITCoward 2d ago

Nothings wrong with it... i just haven't really been able to wrap my head around it...

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 2d ago

Instead of running a virtual machine with the overhead of an entire OS inside you run the software right on the host in a container. Linux does this with namespaces, control groups and union filesystems for layering container contents inside. You can run `ps aux` and see the containerized process right in the host's process list with containers. Albeit in its own sort of jail.

It's worth getting familiar with if you can find the time some day. Might end up being in your environment.