Bitwarden: an excellent password manager for Ubuntu

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Passwords are still relevant these days and it is really inconvenient to remember each and every password for each website login, emails, bank accounts, etc.

In addition to it we must take into account the increase in the number of consumable services online, for this we can make use of an excellent Bitwarden option.

About Bitwarden.

This is a comprehensive cloud-based open source password management solution. It comes with some unique features with strong encryption to help prevent password misuse.

These are some of its characteristics.

  • Can be synchronized: easy access from mobile phones, PC, tabs
  • End-to-end AES-256 bit encryption, salty hashing and PBKDF2 SHA-256
  • Random password creation
  • Support for Windows, Linux and Mac
  • Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Vivaldi)
  • Apps for Android and iOS
  • CLI script support for vault tasks
  • Deviceless Web Vault support
  • Open source

The data you store in BitWarden is encrypted on the client with your master password before they are even transmitted to the sync server.

Because BitWarden is open source unlike its competitors, Any developer with the necessary knowledge can verify that there are no back doors in the application.

BitWarden thas auto-fill functionality for all major browsers, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Brave, Tor Browser, and Vivaldi.

You can also access your passwords using the BitWarden desktop app for Windows, Mac, Linux, as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Si have scripts or applications that require programmatic access to the credentials within your BitWarden vault, there is even a CLI provided.

How to install Bitwarden on Ubuntu and derivatives?

Bitwarden is available as a plug-in, Flatpak, Appimage for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and more derived from Ubuntu.

So in order to obtain the installers of this application we must go to the official website of the application, which we can do by accessing the following link.

On the official website we can obtain the AppImage file, with which we can use the application on the system.

Done the download We must give the file execution permissions with:

sudo chmod a+x Bitwarden*.appimage

And they run with:

./Bitwarden.appimage

Bitwarden installation from Flatpak package

The other method we have to install Bitwarden on almost all current Linux distributions, is with the help of Flatpak packages.

For this we must have support to be able to install applications of this type in the system, you can review the following article where it explains how to add this support to your distribution, the link is this.

Knowing that you have Flatpak support on your system, just open a terminal in and run the following command in it:

flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.bitwarden.desktop.flatpakref

And ready with it, you will have installed the application on your system.

Simply search for the application within your application menu to launch it on your system.

If you can't find it, you can run the application on your system with the following command from the terminal:

flatpak run com.bitwarden.desktop

Bitwarden installation from Snap package

Finally as last installation method we can count on In order to install this application in Ubuntu and derivatives, we have the installation method from Snap.

So we must have the support to install applications of this type in the system. Already sure that we can install Snap applications on our system.

Let open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and in it we are going to execute the following command:

sudo snap install bitwarden

And ready with it, we will have already installed this application in our system.

After a successful installation you can find the Bitwarden launcher in the system applications menu. Please note that you must register and create an account to continue using Bitwarden.


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  1.   Alejandro said

    Excellent software. I've been paying 1password users for a couple of years now and decided to look for a replacement and Bitwarden delivers.