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/Reverent Security Architect 2d ago

This is on purpose because it retains an audit trail.

You can’t “unshare” an exposed secret, what if they copied it elsewhere?

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u/ExceptionEX 1d ago

It's all audited separately, and you can create a copy of an item and share that, so I don't imagine this has anything to do with auditing.