BitBetter

This project is a tool to modify bitwardens core dll to allow me to self license. Beware this does janky IL magic to rewrite the bitwarden core dll and install my self signed certificate.

Yes, there still are quite a few things that need to be fixed. Updates and Organization Buiness Name is hardcoded to Bitbetter, are the first to things to fix.. Better handling of the User-GUID comes to mind too.

Credit to https://github.com/h44z/BitBetter and https://github.com/jakeswenson/BitBetter

Building

To build your own bitwarden/api image run

./build.sh

replace anywhere bitwarden/api is used with bitbetter/api and give it a go. no promises

Issuing your own licenses

The repo is setup to replace the licesning signing cert in bitwarden.core with your own personal self signed cert (cert.pfx) If you want to be able to sign your own licenses obviously you'll have to replace it with your own self signed cert.

Signing licesnses

To sign your own license you first need to generate your own singing cert using the .keys/generate-keys.sh script. Running this script will prompt you to enter some information about your new certificate, you may leave these at the defaults or set them to your preference. The script will then create a pkcs12 file (.pfx) containing your new key/cert.

There is a tool included to generate a license (see src/liceseGen/), build it using:

./src/licenseGen/build.sh

This tool build ontop of the bitbetter/api container image so make sure you've built that above using the root ./build.sh script.

After that you can run the tool using:

cd ~/BitBetter/src/licenseGen
./run.sh ~/BitBetter/.keys/cert.pfx user "Name" "EMail" "User-GUID"
./run.sh ~/BitBetter/.keys/cert.pfx org "Name" "EMail" "Install-ID used to install the server"

Questions (you might have?)

I'll work on updates in the next couple weeks, right now, I just wanted something to start with.

But why? Its open source?

Yes, bitwarden is great. If I didn't care about it i wouldn't be doing this. I was bothered that if i want to host bitwarden myself, at my house, for my family to use (with the ability to share access) I would still have to pay a monthly ENTERPRISE organization fee. To host it myself. And maintain it myself. Basically WTH was bitwarden doing that I was paying them for?

You should have reached out to bitwarden

Thanks, good idea. And I did. Currently they're not focused on solving this issue - yet. To be clear i'm totally happy to give them my money. Offer a perpetual server license, and i'd pay for it. Let me license the server, period. Allow an orginzation to have Premium for all users.. 500 seats, let the 500 users in the orginzation have the Premium features too.

I'm still in the testing/evaluating phase. If I am hosting the server/data, let me license the server, period. How many licenses does one user need to have...