Paste without Paste? Fake Keyboard Input.

Hi @sschluntz, welcome to the Community!

To point you in the right direction, could you let us know a bit more about your setup, for example which operating system you're using? 

There may already be something that would work for your needs. For example, dragging and dropping credentials from the 1Password desktop apps into another window acts as a type action rather than a paste, and 1Password for Windows has an Auto-Type feature.

Looking forward to hearing from you! 

Hello, thanks for the welcome.

I run into the issue on Windows and macOS on some things and macOS on others, and it relates to IP based KVM style solutions. For example, the HP iLo server management tool, which provides a virtual terminal to access the keyboard/mouse/monitor of the server. The HTML5 terminal does not accept pasted input (ctrl-p, ctrl-shift-p, command-p, etc) and does not provide a right click menu. I just tried to drag the password and while it showed the + while hovering over the window, it didn’t actually get the text into the window when I released the mouse button. The only input that works for the window is physical keyboard input. I have the same issue on macOS with virtual terminals using vSphere on VMWare ESXi through Citrix, but I was told by a co-worker that paste could be made to work for Windows devices, I’ve not tried that yet.

I’ve tried to find alternatives. For example, I’ve considered building one of the keystroke injector USB sticks, but that would leave me with a single use device that “typed” a password into anything I plugged it into - not a good security posture.

I realize that this is likely a tiny use case for your community, but also wonder if there were other areas where it could be of use.