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Oh man, if we can have iTerm2 on Linux I will be pumped.

jldugger 5y ago
Are you familiar with Terminator? https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- hitpointdrew 5y ago
  I don’t see a password manager listed in the features, which is about 70% of what I think makes iTerm2 so useful.
  - jldugger 5y ago
    TIL. Never used that!
    - hitpointdrew 5y ago
      option + command +f Pop-up box comes up, here you can have as many credentials as you need, it saves them, just double click one and it will enter it in your terminal window. This an absolute life changing feature for me. I manage a ton of servers, and yeah we use SSO to ssh into them, but that is just ssh access. Once you are on a server they maybe several passwords and or accounts you need to login to or accesses (like postgres, mongodb, redis, etc.). Of course we have seperate passwords for each environment, so having this feature is pretty much a must for me now. Any terminal software that doesn't have a feature like this is a no-go for me (and so far iTerm2 is the only one I have found that has this feature, I have looked high and low for something similar native in Linux but have only come up with bupkis). The other features I like about iTerm2 are pretty standard in at least a dozen or so other terminal emulators (tabs, split windows, etc.). Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc.
      - pxc 5y ago
        > Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc. Never thought of incorporating this in the terminal emulator. I just use a command line client for my usual password manager. Any reason you can't do that?
        slim 5y ago
        I'm guessing your password manager is copying passwords to the clipboard. In that case iTerm2 seems more secure for console access auth
        pxc 5y ago
        No, it outputs passwords on stdout. I use subshells and process substitution to direct the output
        selfhoster11 5y ago
        I want an integrated password workflow, and calling a command line password manager client is the last thing I want to have to remember about. Even if it saves a few keystrokes, it's one less thing to think about.
        pxc 5y ago
        Isn't having the part that submits the password embedded in the same shell history as the command itself more integrated than having a tool you need to tell to input your passwords pseudo-interactively each time? Isn't it also fewer keystrokes? Either way, if you prefer something more interactive and keybind-y, one portable alternative you can use regardless of terminal emulator without necessarily involving a clipboard is to plug the password manager CLI into a terminal multiplexer, e.g.: https://github.com/BlueDrink9/tmux-passwords https://github.com/BlueDrink9/tmux-passwords https://github.com/rafi/tmux-pass https://github.com/rafi/tmux-pass https://github.com/Alkindi42/tmux-bitwarden https://github.com/Alkindi42/tmux-bitwarden (I understand that this is kind of the opposite of what the terminal emulators you listed are about, which is having the terminal emulator do the multiplexing and other integrations. But you can get the same stuff done and it's more portable.)

Are you familiar with Terminator? https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

hitpointdrew 5y ago
I don’t see a password manager listed in the features, which is about 70% of what I think makes iTerm2 so useful.
- jldugger 5y ago
  TIL. Never used that!
  - hitpointdrew 5y ago
    option + command +f Pop-up box comes up, here you can have as many credentials as you need, it saves them, just double click one and it will enter it in your terminal window. This an absolute life changing feature for me. I manage a ton of servers, and yeah we use SSO to ssh into them, but that is just ssh access. Once you are on a server they maybe several passwords and or accounts you need to login to or accesses (like postgres, mongodb, redis, etc.). Of course we have seperate passwords for each environment, so having this feature is pretty much a must for me now. Any terminal software that doesn't have a feature like this is a no-go for me (and so far iTerm2 is the only one I have found that has this feature, I have looked high and low for something similar native in Linux but have only come up with bupkis). The other features I like about iTerm2 are pretty standard in at least a dozen or so other terminal emulators (tabs, split windows, etc.). Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc.
    - pxc 5y ago
      > Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc. Never thought of incorporating this in the terminal emulator. I just use a command line client for my usual password manager. Any reason you can't do that?
      - slim 5y ago
        I'm guessing your password manager is copying passwords to the clipboard. In that case iTerm2 seems more secure for console access auth
        pxc 5y ago
        No, it outputs passwords on stdout. I use subshells and process substitution to direct the output
      - selfhoster11 5y ago
        I want an integrated password workflow, and calling a command line password manager client is the last thing I want to have to remember about. Even if it saves a few keystrokes, it's one less thing to think about.
        pxc 5y ago
        Isn't having the part that submits the password embedded in the same shell history as the command itself more integrated than having a tool you need to tell to input your passwords pseudo-interactively each time? Isn't it also fewer keystrokes? Either way, if you prefer something more interactive and keybind-y, one portable alternative you can use regardless of terminal emulator without necessarily involving a clipboard is to plug the password manager CLI into a terminal multiplexer, e.g.: https://github.com/BlueDrink9/tmux-passwords https://github.com/BlueDrink9/tmux-passwords https://github.com/rafi/tmux-pass https://github.com/rafi/tmux-pass https://github.com/Alkindi42/tmux-bitwarden https://github.com/Alkindi42/tmux-bitwarden (I understand that this is kind of the opposite of what the terminal emulators you listed are about, which is having the terminal emulator do the multiplexing and other integrations. But you can get the same stuff done and it's more portable.)