[pass] [PATCH 2/2] clip: add GPaste support

Marc-Antoine Perennou Marc-Antoine at perennou.com
Mon May 11 14:14:33 CEST 2015


On 11 May 2015 at 14:10, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
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> When you call "gpaste insert-password super-secret-password", everybody can
> see your password for a split second in "ps" output.
>

Ok, got that.

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> Can it be used safely?

Yes, it never shows the password unless you paste it and never writes it to disk

>
> echo is a bash built-in, and thus its arguments will not show up in
> /proc/*/cmdline, as it does not spawn a new process.

Fair enough, would something like "echo password | gpaste add-password
id" be acceptable then?


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