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All password managers and form fillers I've tried are quite terrible at correctly finding and filling fields/text boxes. They all seem to rely on finding patter
by bboygravity 7y ago
All password managers and form fillers I've tried are quite terrible at correctly finding and filling fields/text boxes. They all seem to rely on finding patterns for things to fill from code. Which doesn't work. As there is no clear pattern accross billions of non-standard web-forms.
Does anybody know of pw managers that work using image recognition (OCR-like) on the GUI to find fillable fields? AKA: using the same form-API that humans do?
- ubercow13 7y agoI would guess that it wouldn't be worth the hassle of the inevitable inaccurate identifications. The most ergonomic password entry tool I've used is rofi-pass [1]. It's so effortless that I don't think anything smarter could improve on it in practice. It works in a predictable and way in any application (eg SSH pw in a terminal) without any complex integrations being needed and once you get used to using the hotkey it's basically as quick as form autofilling. [1] https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass
- kuzimoto 7y agoHmm unfortunately I don't have an answer for your question. Though sounds like KeePass is the next best thing. You can define custom auto-type patterns, for forms that don't follow the typical <username><tab><password><enter> format. It's great for saving ftp sites for filezilla, or ssh logins.