Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 5, 2014 20:15 UTC (Sat) by arekm (guest, #4846)
In reply to: Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper by barryascott
Parent article: Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Would be nice if clipper was able to figure out that something is a password and then keep it only for configured time, like 2 minutes.

(so passwords won't be there for days if someone selects rarely or set clipper app to remember big number of entries)

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 5, 2014 20:23 UTC (Sat) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link] (6 responses)

I thought this was about clipboard? Why do you have passwords there?

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 5, 2014 22:18 UTC (Sat) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link] (2 responses)

You generate a password in some way that's unique for one of those websites you rarely visit or comment at, then want to paste it into those boxes, that try and make you type it twice.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 6, 2014 23:55 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Perfect use case for the mouse selection buffer ;) .

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 10, 2014 8:40 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link]

Yes, and I actually use it that way where I can, but I find clipboard still useful. Storing the username (often complicated and obscure) in clipboard, then select only for generated pass, lets you move windows once rather than go back and forth.

Secondly Firefox password management, on certain websites which expose multiple domain names need to search in list. That lets you copy user/pass into paste buffers, great, but if you only have 1 without the clipboard you have to go back to get the second, which is awkward and wastes time as the security pass dialog blocks the data entry in other tab.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 7, 2014 21:04 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (2 responses)

My password manager program uses the clipboard to move passwords. Select the item, hit Ctrl-P and it copies the password.

Other options just won't work as well. A browser plugin only solves the problem for web sites.

So yes, the clipboard often has passwords in it.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 7, 2014 21:25 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

As this is a common use case it seems that the clipboard manager has some security requirements to not leak clipboard contents in the clear.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 7, 2014 22:21 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Yes.

Currently, the security is done by wiping the clipboard after pasting the password. However, if there is clipboard history being maintained I am not sure how that works.