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2 years agoSuper Contributor
Universal Autofill issues
This discussion was created from comments split from: No auto-type in 1PW8?.
nomad55
2 years agoNew Contributor
Hi Dave
Yes I know about the Universal Autofill and I already used it before. It works fine on my Mac, but only there. But I often need to use remote machines. The Operating Systems I work with remotely are mostly Linux and Windows. When I have to use the graphical interface it's mostly a web-console. Occasionally, also some sort of client software which renders the screen of the OS (example: Windows Remote Desktop). Some of these machines have no access to the Internet or the possibility to install software on them. But I need/want to enter secure (long and complicated) passwords there, and quite regularly the copy-paste function doesn't work (because of security concerns). I tried to use the Universal Autofill in the web-console or RDP client, but it doesn't do anything at all. The function of KeePassXC Autotype was then exceptionally helpful because it really types the characters as keystrokes, also allowing a bit of latency because these types of remote client have latencies as well.
For you to work/test with a pretty similar environment as I mentioned web-consoles are, I can recommend trying out Webtop (https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2021-05-05-meet-webtops-a-linux-desktop-environment-in-your-browser). There you can start a linux distro in docker with a desktop environment and access it by using only your browser. This is from a technical point of view the same as other web-consoles (Vmware, Citrix, etc.). There you'll find that Universal Autofill will not work too.
If I could install 1password on those machines I agree, it's not a severe problem, but often I'm not allowed or don't want or can't (no internet) install the software.
But still, even if I can install 1Password, I still can't enter strange sequences as Username