palortoff / pass-extension-wclip

A pass extension to clip on windows

pass wclip

An extension for the password store that copies a stored password into the windows clipboard using wclip to hide it from password history managers.

Usage

pass wclip pass-name

Example

pass wclip email/gmail

Parameters

As pass wclip uses the show command internally the --clip or -c parameter can be used to specify the line number.

pass wclip -c2 email/gmail
pass wclip --clip=6 email/gmail

Installation

(This extensions is for windows only)

• First you have to enable extensions in pass by setting PASSWORD_STORE_ENABLE_EXTENSIONS=true
• Add the wclip.bash file to .password-store/.extensions
  • Either copy the file or
  • Clone this repo as a submodule into .password-store/.extensions/wclip and
  • Create a symlink (in an elevated cmd, not in bash)

cd %userprofile%\.password-store\.extensions
mklink wclip.bash wclip\src\wclip.bash

Contribution

Contributions are always welcome.

pass-extension-wclip's Issues

Putty support

Does this extension supports cut&paste from putty/kitty?

Two possible errors in wclip.bash

I installed wclip into ~/.password-store/.extensions/wclip.bash. When I tried pass wclip secret I got the errors below:

/home/me/.password-store/.extensions/wclip.bash: line 6: /dev/clipboard: No such file or directory
/home/me/.password-store/.extensions/wclip.bash: line 7: wclip: command not found
Error: Could not copy data to the clipboard

This is windows 10, if that helps.

Proposal for better compatibility with WSL2

This is connected to the issue reported as Two possible errors in wclip.bash, caused by non-existing /dev/clipboard under WSL2

I run into it too and have addressed it by usage of another tool win32yank
So in my case your wclip.bash has this small change

local before="$(base64 < /dev/clipboard)"

become

local before="$(win32yank -o | base64)"

So, my proposal would be to add another option to your wclip.exe e.g. --print which would print content of clipboard to the stdout. Advantage would be removal of dependency to /dev/clipboard with usage of already used application instead of adding second one. And as your wclip.exe application is already meant to work with windows clipboard this looks to me as a natural enhacement.
The ultimate version would then be

local before="$(wclip --print | base64)"