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Universal Autofill in Terminal/iTerm for non-sudo commands
1Password seems to have specific handling for Terminal.app and iTerm.app such that it will only actually autofill if the user is being prompted for a password in response to running a sudo command. At all other times, it will silently do nothing. Ideally, it would be possible to use autofill at all times; there are many other circumstances under which it is necessary to type a password into a terminal. Additionally, I would recommend against using Secure Keyboard Entry mode as a filter. While many apps do correctly enable it when prompting for a password, it's an imperfect signal; commands running in an SSH session are not able to set it, and also that would prevent use cases such as autofilling a password into a configuration file.
1Password Version: 8.8.0-21
Extension Version: N/A
OS Version: macOS 12.3.1
In general I really can appreciate the desire/need for guard rails for this feature, but I would request that there be an advanced configuration option to disable them. Ideally I'd really like the ability to paste passwords into any arbitrary location, not rely on an allowlist from 1password.
My issue was specifically trying to fill in an SSO page that was redirected, so not a google.com domain.
Yeah this makes universal autofill totally useless for me. So far I haven't been able to use it in any place I've needed it, namely arbitrary password prompts on remote servers and to fill my gmail password in Mailplane.
Jack_P_1P1Password Team
Hey @elyscape:
That's my bad, I misread your original post a bit. I'll file a separate feature request for arbitrary Universal Autofill in terminal apps. Thanks for following up and catching that! 😀
Jack
ref: IDEA-I-1036
Jack_P_1P To be clear, this is not a request for the ability to autofill
sudoprompts on remote systems. It's a request for the ability to autofill at arbitrary times in terminal apps, even when the user isn't being prompted bysudo.- Jack_P_1P
Hey @elyscape:
Great question! While we'd absolutely love to see Universal Autofill support remote user accounts via SSH (I ran into this myself a day or so ago working on a personal project of mine), as it currently stands, Universal Autofill will only fill
sudoin the context of your local machine. In other words, if you SSH into the hostexample.com, and you're prompted for yoursudopassword, 1Password isn't able to fill that.With that said, I've filed an issue on your behalf, so hopefully in the future we'll see Universal Autofill work over SSH!
Jack
ref: dev/core/core#15286
Incidentally, I only was able to figure out that this was happening when I carefully reread the Universal Autofill documentation, and saw this:
With 1Password and Universal Autofill, you can fill your usernames and passwords everywhere you need to sign in on your Mac:
- in all your apps and websites
- anywhere you’re asked to log in as an administrator on your Mac
- when you runsudocommands in your terminal appThat third bullet point explained the issue. The problem is that I consider "all your apps" to include my terminal app, and I suspect that I am far from alone in this.
