passmenu: optionally type username as well

[Matthew Snider]

Hi!


I've just recently started using pass and more specifically passmenu, and am very pleased with it :-)


The main feature I found that was immediately missing when switching over from keepassx, is the ability to autotype a username/password combination. I read through the mailing list archives and found this feature was already attempted here: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2015-December/001834.html<https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2015-December/001834.html>


It doesn't seem like there was any response to this, but arbitrarily taking the second line doesn't seem ideal to me. I think my implementation is an improvement, because it leverages the suggested file format of "key: value" pairs after the first line.


In the included patch you will see that I've just added a --userfield flag which can be used as follows:

passmenu --type --userfield username [dmenu arguments...]


This corresponds to files which look like:

passw0rd

username: matt.snider


I personally use this by binding $mod+p to the regular passmenu invocation, and $mod+Shift+p to the invocation using --type and --userfield. This has been working very well for me.


Please let me know what you think and if you have some feedback.


Best,

Matt


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