On 04/27/2014 12:11 PM, Stephen Schoun wrote:
On 04/27/2014 09:28 AM, Matthew Cengia wrote:
On 2014-04-27 06:26, Stephen Schoun wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is my first post to the password-store listserv. Pass works
great for me on Linux, but I have been struggling to get it to work
on Windows. One of the issues I came across was the difficulty in
finding an executable of the "base64" program for
cygwin/mingw/msys/msysgit anywhere on the internet and I don't
really want to compile it myself. I'm actually using msysgit.
However, I found a workaround that seems to do the job. If I
understand correctly, base64 is used to strip newlines when writing
and reading from the clipboard manager.
Hi Stephen,
No, the purpose of base64 is to explicitly *prevent* the stripping of
trailing newlines from the clipboard. Without it, the last newline of
the clipboard's contents is removed, and that may be unintended. I
*think*
Jason has written an alternative to the base64 method which should be
out soon.
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for replying. Are you sure that the desired effect is to
*prevent* stripping of newlines? When a password is copied to the
clipboard, I want to be able to paste that password without having it
include a newline character. When pasting logon information in some
web pages, for example, browsers might interpret the newline character
as an actual character of the password, or they might interpret the
newline as a request to submit the page before I am ready.
Best regards,
--Stephen
Hi again Matthew,
I think you were right. The "base64" command is only used when
preserving or restoring the previous contents of the clipboard, and
therefore it *does prevent* stripping of newlines. When copying the
password to the clipboard, however, the "echo -n" command strips
newlines and "base64" is not used.
Best regards,
--Stephen Schoun
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