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I researched this 3 years ago for our startups and couldn't find anything really good that lets me easily and securely share passwords on a need-to-know basis to team members and see who has access to what. Which baffles me because this is a problem that every single startup and small company must have.

In the end, we went for https://www.passpack.com/. They're clearly a small shop but it's been designed from the ground up for teams, they appear to care and know what they're doing when it comes to security (only have their word for it though obviously). Their web interface doesn't look like much but it's insanely fast and really well thought out, making inputing and looking for password really quick and easy. For some reason their pricing is ridiculously low - it costs next to nothing.

Two bad points: no native mobile app, making it a huge pain to look up password on the go + paranoid on the security front, which means that logging in is always a big pain. That unfortunately means that we were never able to convince anyone to really embrace it. Convenience and security is always a balancing act and Passpack is definitely leaning on the security side (understandable obviously). TBH, if they had a good native iOS app, I think it could make a difference for them. Instead of being this really annoying tool you're forced to use at work, they could become something that everyone uses as part of their daily personal life which would make it easier to get it adopted at work.



I've used passpack as part of a team and the workflow is pretty much spot on.

I have doubts about the security (cryptography in javascript) and the long-term prospects of such a small provider; I worry about them disappearing one day with all my passwords.


They do offer export and backup


We use Passpack.com for 10+ people and have a routine policy of backing everything up (in encrypted form) on several USB sticks regularly.

It's a nice service, although the UI/UX could be polished and simplified. We haven't switched away.




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