The more I think about the clipboard restore feature the less useful it seems.
I get my old clipboard back, but not until 45-ish seconds after I use the password. What value on the clipboard is worth waiting 45-ish seconds for? If you need it you need it you probably don't want to wait 45 seconds to get it back. Wouldn't you just go copy that value again? I just don't see the use case for the password restore. I'd rather not have the security liability. Philip On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Jonas Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think clearing the clipboard is a good idea. I would prefer one of the > following options to the proposed --Clip, though: > > 1) simply replace the current --clip to clear the password instead of > restoring them. Frankly, we do not need two command line flags that do > almost the same. > > 2) If some more backward compatibility is desired, the new pass process > (let's call it B) should detect an existing pass process (A) waiting to > clear the clipboard. B could then send A a custom signal or so, causing it > to reset the time limit to 45 seconds from now. B then terminates, and A > resets the clipboard to the original value after 45 seconds. > > Option (1) is simpler, option (2) would be what I expect. Do people think > it's worth the complexity? > > Cheers, > Jonas > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Blott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:06:11AM -0400, Philip Chase wrote: >> >>> That seems completely reasonable. I have never encountered another >>> application that reverted the clipboard to a previous value, so I never >>> expected pass to do it. >>> >> ---end quoted text--- >> >> I rattled up a version of pass with "-C" and "--Clip" options (note >> capitals), the same as "-c" and "--clip", except that the clipboard is not >> cleared. >> >> Any interest? >> >> How does one submit PRs or patches to this project? >> >> Steve >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Password-Store mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/password-store >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Password-Store mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/password-store > > -- Philip Chase * 352-575-0705 * Gainesville, FL
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