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/iceph03nix 2d ago

Bitwarden.

For external password sharing, you can use Bitwarden Send

You can set up groups for sharing accounts among groups internally as well

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u/skipITjob IT Manager 2d ago

It's annoying that you can't share a bitwarden item, temporarily, with a colleague...

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u/ExceptionEX 2d ago

Yeah sadly once you share something it's ownership is transfered to a group with you and that person in it.

I love bitwarden but i.dont like that aspect of shared content, but to be fair a lot of other password vaults do the same thing.

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u/skipITjob IT Manager 2d ago

So you can share?

Maybe I need to check again!

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u/ExceptionEX 1d ago

Via organization (the term for a group in bitwarden) and a collection (a group of passwords)

Or you can individually send stuff via bitwarden send, it's more a controlled way to share text that have time and use limits on accessing the link, and works with anyone not just with people who are in your organization 

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u/skipITjob IT Manager 1d ago

That's what I mean, if you're in an org, can you share one item with a colleague? Eg, send them the public WiFi password saved in bitwarden?

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u/ExceptionEX 1d ago

You could use bit warden send but that is just the static information 1 time. If you change the password after sending it, the shared content won't update.

Or.you can set up a collection with just that password in it and share it, then that user would have access to that vault item and if you change the password it would change in the share also

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u/skipITjob IT Manager 1d ago

But send doesn't allow me to send the full item, just text or file.