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My only reservations with clipboard managers are that I still do a lot of password transfer using the clipboard. If only my last copy is resident in memory then
by zmmmmm 4y ago
My only reservations with clipboard managers are that I still do a lot of password transfer using the clipboard. If only my last copy is resident in memory then the risk seems low, but if it retains all of my history then it seems quite risky.
How do people using these apps manage this problem? Is everyone completely using password manager auto-fill instead?
- dhaya 4y agoMaccy has sensible default options that ignore content marked as confidential or coming from specific apps: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy#ignore-custom-copy-types https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy#ignore-custom-copy-types.
- hotwire 4y agoOk, that's cool! I've been using Jumpcut since 2008 when I switched to macos, and I'm pretty prone to app inertia, but that might actually make me switch. thanks.
- zmmmmm 4y agothanks just tried it out with unix pass which is what I use mostly and somewhat understandably it didn't manage to stop it recording it in the clipboard history. Not sure how well it can work with pure terminal apps like that.
- zmmmmm 4y agook - replying to myself - defining a function to overlay the normal pass command can work around it like this: function pass() { defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy ignoreEvents true ; sleep 1; /opt/local/bin/pass -c "$@" ; echo "Copied password to clipboard for $*"; sleep 1; defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy ignoreEvents false; } I think this might work ok!
- totetsu 4y agoI don't know how it works, but with my passwords from keepass get wiped from my clipboard manager automagically on timeout.