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Free Bitwarden Family Premium Accounts if Your Employer has an Enterprise Account

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I think Bitwarden is the leading password manager by far, and if your company has an enterprise account, then you can get a free Family account which grants up to 6 premium users as well as vaults and collections.

If your company stops using Bitwarden, or you leave, then it becomes charged ($40USD/year), be aware that you'll probably end up paying that in this event because it's a hassle to move off.

For me, this is great because I use collections for my business registrations with one other user, then my household has stuff like the WiFi password and alarm codes shared.

Finally Premium Accounts give you access to "Emergency Contacts" which are ideal for the digital age, you can nominate people who can request access to view your passwords or manage your account if no response after a chosen cooldown period.

EG, if you sent it to Bob with a 7 day cooldown with manage access, then he can request access and you'll get a notification, if you don't respond to the notification in 7 days, he'll be granted access.

This is perfect for elderly family members, or if you have a mountain of production accounts for your business and someone dies or is hospitalised. I literally saved a business because I had access to their Bitwarden once and their sole administrator had a stroke (although I just had their master password, they didn't have the emergency contact function).

If you don't have a password manager, then start using one asap, even if it's not Bitwarden.


Members of Enterprise organizations are offered a free Families organization sponsorship that can be applied to a new or pre-existing Families organization and redeemed directly from the web vault.

Using a Families organization, securely share vault data between yourself and up to five friends or family members. Families organizations include premium Bitwarden features for all six users, including advanced two-step login methods, encrypted file attachments, emergency access, and more.

This article will help organization members redeem their sponsorship, however if you are an admin of a self-hosted Bitwarden Enterprise organization, you'll need to complete these steps to enable Families sponsorships for your members.

Q: What happens if I leave the organization sponsoring me?
A: If you leave or are removed from the sponsoring organization, or if you manually end your sponsorship, your payment method on file will be charged at the next billing interval.

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  • +1

    Same deal with 1password also, personally I prefer it over bitwarden

  • Or you can also self-host bitwarden for free, have been doing it for years and works great. Requires some tech knowledge, docker etc, https://bitwarden.com/blog/host-your-own-open-source-passwor…

    • Why "or"?

      Bitwarden family and self-hosting Bitwarden are not mutually exclusive.

      One activates a feature set, the other determines where your data is held.

      • Or go with Vaultwarden and you get access to all the future.

        • That's interesting, I love when people repurpose existing systems.

          Although I moved to Bitwarden [hosted by them] from Passman via NextCloud for the literal reason that a server outage meant a password manager outage, which often risked creating a fatal loop where I couldn't fix my servers because I couldn't access my passwords, and I couldn't access my passwords because my server was down.

          I also have a mail server hosted by a VPS provider for the same reason.

          I could self-host Bitwarden on, say, a VPS, but it would actually cost more than $40USD/year.

          • @danvelopment: Self hosting email has always been a strange one to me. It seems like far too much effort and cost over a service like MXroute, with much worse email deliverability, unless using a relay (which kind of defeats the purpose).

            • @kfr23: Shruggie, mail-in-a-box.

              It's been running for seven years now, maybe an hour a month max of maintenance.

              It also taught me DNS and supports all the latest web tech.

              Scratch that, nine years now, since 2016.

              • @danvelopment: You gotta any starting resources and what do you do for maintenance?

                • @OmgItsHeaven: https://mailinabox.email/

                  It's near foolproof with a modicum of IT knowledge and/or a willingness to learn.

                  • spin up an Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS VPS (I use Vultr) with a static IP (I don't recommend doing this at home, if you move house your IP changes and your IP is very important for building a trust profile)
                  • Set up your DNS and Reverse DNS records against your domain (whether using it as a nameserver, or alternatively I use CloudFlare, once you're in the system it feeds you the records, you can copy them into a text file and import them onto CloudFlare)
                  • Run this script:
                    curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo -E bash

                  Follow the instructions.

                  Pretty much done, it will yell at you and instruct you how to use certificate based login and to disable password login in the admin panel.

                  https://mailinabox.email/guide.html

                  The admin panel tells you when it needs rebooting and when updates are available, and if you need to update, you just run the install script above again.

                  It also has a built in web based mail client (RoundCube) and NextCloud instance (that I don't use) for dav calendar etc.

                  There are other, similar services such as Mailcow, but I haven't ever had a need to try them out because MIAB has done everything and done it well.

          • @danvelopment: During a server outage, bitwarden does keep a local version in cache so that is helpful.

            But since I run my own 'Google Photos' (immich), I weekly encyrpted backups, in those backups is the docker files for vaultwarden, which I can deploy on locally on another computer.

  • I've been using Bitwarden free edition for a few years.
    It's basically perfect.

    I have 3 Bitwarden accounts I use in different chrome profiles (personal, work, other).
    I could put it all into one account and use folders, but already have separate Chrome profiles for each of these 3 things, so feel it's good to keep the logins separate also.

    I only use the personal account on Android phone.

    • It's a shame the UI is terrible

      • It's not pretty, but I find it fully functional.
        When companies make UI changes to make apps look 'modern', I typically dislike them. So I kinda don't want then to change Bitwarden!

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