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Re:Midnight project: Password manager without a password man... by jroes on Sunday August 12, 2012 @10:03PM (#4374291)
They would only discover the domains, not the passwords you entered. You type the domain at the command line, but you type the password into stdin.
Re:Midnight project: Password manager without a password man... by MTGandP on Monday August 13, 2012 @01:28AM (#4374676)
The program outputs your site-specific password to stdout. Is it possible for an attacker to get your stdout history?
Re:Midnight project: Password manager without a password man... by lloeki on Monday August 13, 2012 @07:29AM (#4375324)
Might be. Some terminal emulators save logs. "Unlimited scrolling" often goes to disk, possibly in a file, possibly in swap (Terminal.app makes it stay in memory, which once consumed 3GB of RAM for my long-lived "rails server" tab). iTerm2 allows you to navigate back in time, while Terminal.app saves some data on quit to display on restore (if OSX autosave is enabled).
Re:Midnight project: Password manager without a password man... by jaseg on Monday August 13, 2012 @07:39AM (#4375355)
When you allow less common tools to be used, one could use the bash or zsh read-builtin to read the master password without echoing (e.g. dash's read can not do that) and use xclip or similar to directly put the password into the X clipboard. With xclip's -l option you could even automagically "forget" the clipboard after it was pasted once.