Sharing a login with a teammate often means pasting it into a chat, dropping it in a spreadsheet, or pinning a note somewhere everyone can see.That works until a password changes, someone leaves the team, or your credentials get leaked thanks to an employee's hasty story post on social media.Passbolt is built for exactly that problem. You might remember it from our Linux password managers list, where it was listed as the go-to for businesses and teams.💡If you were looking for solutions that are tailored for individuals, then Proton Pass (partner link) and AliasVault are good picks to consider. No password woes?Passbolt is the creation of Passbolt SA, a company based in Luxembourg. It lets teams store and share logins and other secrets, making them accessible from one place, reducing the chances of team members being served expired or exposed credentials.Underneath, it uses OpenPGP for encryption, and you log in with two things, a private key and a passphrase. Every person with access to a secret gets their own separately encrypted copy of it.To use it in a browser, you will need to install its extension, which takes care of the security-sensitive operations and auto-fills logins on websites.But there's something you need to know.The Community Edition is open source, available on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license, and so are the browser extension, the mobile apps, and the Docker and Helm setups. Then there are the paid plans. Pro and Enterprise are the self-hosted ones, and Cloud Business, Cloud Sovereign, and Cloud Enterprise are hosted by Passbolt. They add things like SSO, account recovery, and activity logs on top of what the Community Edition offers.Passbolt says the Pro and Enterprise editions use the AGPL license too. Its GitHub organization lists no separate repositories for them. Pro also needs a subscription key to run, and you lose updates and support once the subscription ends.Trying the Passbolt CloudI signed up for the Cloud Business trial by filling out a form with my full name, email address, organization name, and the workspace URL I wanted all my content stored under.Passbolt also asks you to give consent to it storing and processing this personal information in line with its privacy policy.Once submitted, I was notified that an email with instructions was on its way.I followed the link in it, after which a configuration page took over, running through a few steps before it let me get in without setting a password. Passbolt then nudged me to install its browser extension.The browser extensionSeeing that I was on Vivaldi, it automatically showed me a download button to get the Chromium version of the extension installed. Before adding it, I went through the permissions it asked for.It requests a broad set, covering reading and changing all my data on all websites, modifying the data I copy and paste, and managing my downloads.After reviewing the permissions the extension required and accepting them, I was taken into the passphrase and security token configuration phase, where I had to pick a passphrase, followed by a security token made up of a color and three characters.Managing entriesNow that I was logged in, I started adding new entries. They are created from the blue "Create" button at the top-left, and the types are diverse, including Passwords, TOTPs, Custom Fields, Pin Codes, and Notes. I started populating Passbolt with some social media-related logins.The new entry form for passwords offers a lot of customizability. I could set the name, URI, username, and password, along with a color and an icon for the entry.The generator is very useful too, letting me set the length, pick the character types to include, and even switch to passphrases for more flexibility when creating new accounts.When I saved an entry, Passbolt asked for my passphrase, with the security token I had picked sitting right next to the field. It can also remember the passphrase for a while, with choices running from 5 minutes to staying remembered until I log out.Sharing, exporting, and deleting can be done in batches as well. You just select the entries and pick an option from the toolbar above the list, and when you delete, Passbolt cautions that the entry is removed permanently and cannot be recovered.Autofilling passwordsNext, I checked out the autofill feature through the browser extension. When I went to log in to Threads, it said no passwords were found for the current page and did not suggest the saved credential. I had to search for it manually, and only then did it fill in the login form once I clicked "Use on this page."That came down to the entry's URI, which I had saved as threads.net while the login page sat on threads.com.I could also add new entries from the extension and browse through the filters, groups, and tags from my account.Collaborating with othersI then tried my hand at the highlight of the tool, collaborating with other team members.For this, I went into the "Manage Users & Groups" menu accessible via the gear button on top-right and invited a colleague for collaboration (shown as P).He received an invitation email, and once he was set up, I gave him access to a specific folder I had created (Passbolt Collaboration Test), filled with credentials I had imported.To do that, I used the "Share" option found by right-clicking on the folder, where I typed his name into the field, giving him the read permission.P could access the folder without much fuss, and with the permission he had, he could not edit any entries but could copy the username, password, URI, and permalink for an entry.From the same Users & Groups menu from earlier, I could also promote him from User to Admin, giving him control over the workspace's users and settings, or suspend his account when needed.Interested?To try Passbolt Cloud, you sign up with your name, email, organization name, and a workspace URL. The 7-day trial starts automatically without Passbolt pestering you for your credit card info.Sign Up Now!After that, paid options include Cloud Business, which costs $5.4 per user per month on a monthly plan, or $4.9 if you go yearly. Cloud Sovereign is $8 per user per month billed annually, and both need at least 10 users.You can also get a custom quote tailored to your setup via Cloud Enterprise.If you would rather host it yourself, the Community Edition is free with no cap on users, and you can install it on Debian, Ubuntu, Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat, AlmaLinux, and more.Pro adds extras like SSO and LDAP provisioning, and it costs $4.9 per user per month billed annually for a minimum of 10 users.Browser extensions are also available for Chromium browsers like Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi, as well as Firefox and Safari. There are apps for iOS and Android too, and the only desktop app is for Windows ☹️.As an alternative, Linux users can make use of the CLI tool Passbolt offers.