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Dumb question: What's the best practice to share authentication credentials across the team for services that don't have an IAM feature?


I've never used it in production (my last shop was heavily AWS based and relied on IAM), but I always like the look of Hashicorp's Vault [0]

https://www.vaultproject.io/


When it comes to security, there are no dumb questions.


There are a few SaaS offerings that will let you do that. LastPass or onepassword are two commonly used.

One you can use something like keypass to store a database in a shared location if you don't trust the SaaS offerings.

If you are looking at storing credentials for automation purposes, and don't have a secret store built in, you could look at something like Hashicorp Vault to help provide this for you


LastPass has a terrible track record in security, that was nicely edited out from wikipedia by a fresh user: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LastPass&action=h...

The user in question has some specific interest in editing LogMeIn, parent of LastPass, pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%...


I think that something like Stack's Blackbox is the best idea. This ansible-based setup also explains the concepts pretty well: http://ansiblecookbook.com/html/en.html#how-do-i-store-priva...


In person I use a thumb drive. You could encrypt the credentials using PGP and send it to a coworker if they are remote.

Sometimes I just go on google hangouts and share my screen if I'm feeling lazy.


We're using Keepass / MacPass password protected vault shared with the team using Dropbox. It's really good and essentially free to use if you use a free Dropbox account.


Then make sure you use 2FA on the Dropbox account. And you should use a key + password to unlock keepass.


Keepass and keybase team repo to sync.


We launched EnvKey[1] a couple months ago to offer an easy-to-integrate solution to this issue.

1 - https://www.envkey.com


We use 1password for teams.




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