Pop-up box comes up, here you can have as many credentials as you need, it saves them, just double click one and it will enter it in your terminal window. This an absolute life changing feature for me. I manage a ton of servers, and yeah we use SSO to ssh into them, but that is just ssh access. Once you are on a server they maybe several passwords and or accounts you need to login to or accesses (like postgres, mongodb, redis, etc.). Of course we have seperate passwords for each environment, so having this feature is pretty much a must for me now. Any terminal software that doesn't have a feature like this is a no-go for me (and so far iTerm2 is the only one I have found that has this feature, I have looked high and low for something similar native in Linux but have only come up with bupkis).
The other features I like about iTerm2 are pretty standard in at least a dozen or so other terminal emulators (tabs, split windows, etc.). Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc.
> Password management is THE feature that is painfully missing from Terminator, Tilix, etc.
Never thought of incorporating this in the terminal emulator. I just use a command line client for my usual password manager. Any reason you can't do that?
> I just use a command line client for my usual password manager. Any reason you can't do that?
The obvious issue with this is the need to be in a session on your local machine. For example you would have to run the cli password manager, then ssh, then login to postgres. Then say you need to go to another machine and use a different password, now you have to back out to your local machine, run the password command again, then login to the other machine. The tool passmgr for example copies the pw to clipboard for 30 seconds, so now you up against the clock to get in and use it, what if you sit on remote machine for half the day? Now you have to constantly flip back to your local machine then back to the remote machine.
With in integrated password manager it doesn't matter what machine I am on, or even if I am daisy chained several ssh sessions deep, I can always immediately get access to the passwords I need.
I want an integrated password workflow, and calling a command line password manager client is the last thing I want to have to remember about. Even if it saves a few keystrokes, it's one less thing to think about.
Isn't having the part that submits the password embedded in the same shell history as the command itself more integrated than having a tool you need to tell to input your passwords pseudo-interactively each time? Isn't it also fewer keystrokes?
Either way, if you prefer something more interactive and keybind-y, one portable alternative you can use regardless of terminal emulator without necessarily involving a clipboard is to plug the password manager CLI into a terminal multiplexer, e.g.:
(I understand that this is kind of the opposite of what the terminal emulators you listed are about, which is having the terminal emulator do the multiplexing and other integrations. But you can get the same stuff done and it's more portable.)
