Use Duo Two-step Login using Duo is unique among Bitwarden’s available Two-step Login methods in that it can be enabled for a Personal Vault (like the other methods) or enabled for an entire Organization by Teams and Enterprise Organizations.
- 13 hours ago The Premium tier also supports Duo Security, YubiKey and FIDO U2F-compliant USB security keys. As mentioned earlier, Premium subscribers can also use Bitwarden's own authenticator app instead of a.
- Bitwarden is one of the very few password managers that is open-source and has been.
- Bitwarden, Inc., parent company of 8bit Solutions LLC, brings you Bitwarden. Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices. Password theft is a serious problem. The websites and apps that you use are under attack every day.
Bitwarden is an open-source password manager. Using Bitwarden_rs, it is possible to create a self-hosted server, using little resources, enabling you to use all its features.

Bitwarden makes it possible to share and sync usernames and passwords across all devices and webbrowsers.
In this example I’ll be using two pc’s: One for compiling and one for hosting, because the VPS I run this on isn’t powerful enough to compile the binaries.
On compile machine
Install dependencies
Compile bitwarden_rs
Compile vault
Clone and checkout repository
Patch web vault to work with Bitwarden RS
Download the most recent Bitwarden_RS patch for the Bitwarden web vault. This can be done using one of two ways:
A. Download and apply a patch based on the version that you just checked out using git.
B. Does this give a 404 Not Found
error? In that case there might not be new changes in the most recent Bitwarden web release that need to be patched in order to work with Bitwarden RS.
- Go to https://github.com/dani-garcia/bw_web_builds/tree/master/patches.
- Click on the patch that is closest to the version you checked out in git (visible by executing the command
git tag --sort=v:refname | tail -n1
). - Click on “raw” to get a direct link to the patch file.
- Download with
wget
and usegit apply
.
For example:
Build the web vault
NB: Do not run the following commands as root. Building the web vault will fail.
Copy
on remote host
Use this file as a template. Alter all uncommented variables to match your environment.
Add nginx vault.conf. The following config assumes that you have already installed and configured certbot / letsencrypt and retrieved a certificate.
Set up Fail2ban
If you are using Fail2Ban, you can add this configuration to keep out unwanted guests:
Set up logrotation
Over time, the Bitwarden_RS log file can grow to a significant size. Using logrotate, we can periodically rotate logs.
NB: To view a compressed log file without manually decompressing:
Backup
If you’d like to backup the bitwarden server, please use the following steps to do so
Export the sqlite database:

If you have already set up backups for other services, add these paths to your list of backup targets:
Upgrade Bitwarden RS and web vault
On build machine
Update system packages

Remove old build and sources
Upgrade Rust
Build Bitwarden RS
Build Bitwarden web vault
Bitwarden Self Hosted Duo
Clone Bitwarden web vault repository
Download the most recent Bitwarden_RS patch for the Bitwarden web vault

This can be done using one of two ways:
A. Download and apply a patch based on the version that you just checked out using git.
B. Does this give a 404 Not Found
error? In that case there might not be new changes in the most recent Bitwarden web release that need to be patched in order to work with Bitwarden RS.
- Go to https://github.com/dani-garcia/bw_web_builds/tree/master/patches.
- Click on the patch that is closest to the version you checked out in git (visible by executing the command
git tag --sort=v:refname | tail -n1
). - Click on “raw” to get a direct link to the patch file.
- Download with
wget
and usegit apply
.
For example:
Compile web vault
Bitwarden_rs Duo
Copy upgraded binary and vault
Bitwarden Duo Setup
On remote / public machine
Update notes

- 2020-07: Improved web-vault instructions, added upgrade steps.
- 2020-08: Noticed missing nginx config example. Added this.
- 2020-09: Added some cleanup steps.
- 2020-10: Updated to latest versions. Added new configuration options. Include MySQL and PostgreSQL backends next to the existing SQLite backend in compile steps.
- 2020-12: Update to latest versions. Added logrotate config.
- 2021-04: A reader notified me that the Bitwarden admin Fail2ban regex in
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/bitwarden-admin.conf
should be updated. Bitwarden no longer prepends the log entry with “Unauthorized Error: “. This has been corrected.
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