[pass] Chrome Extension

[Marcus Breese]

Because Chrome extensions can't shell out to call programs.  (Unless they are compiled as plugins).

At least, that's my understanding...
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Marcus Breese
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On Sep 11, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:

> Somebody claiming to be Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Marcus Breese <marcus at breese.com> wrote:
>>> pretty straightforward to get the URL of the current tab, then send that to a pass daemon running locally.
> 
> Daemon?  Why not just run pass and send things on STDIN?  (STDIN cannot be read by others inspecting the process from outside, unlike ENVVARS and cmdline args).
> 
> Or, you know, no secret information is sent to pass anyway, so just invoke it with the cmdline args as normal and have it do the clipboard thing it already does (or even the STDOUT thing, since that can't be intercepted).
> 
> Seems like no changes to pass should be necessary.
> 
> Or is the problem that chrome can't run processes?
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