assistance:Secure_Input_Problem
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| assistance:Secure_Input_Problem [2020/01/28 04:21] – Bitwarden peternlewis | assistance:Secure_Input_Problem [2024/08/13 03:07] (current) – peternlewis | ||
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| - | Mac OS X will not let applications watch the keyboard when you are in a password field (to prevent hackers getting hold of your passwords). However, the system can sometimes get into a state where it thinks it is permanently in a password fields. There are many possible culprits for this but almost anything that asks for a password could cause the problem (eg, web password fields, web password managers, VPN connections, | + | macOS will not let applications watch the keyboard when you are in a password field (to prevent hackers getting hold of your passwords). However, the system can sometimes get into a state where it thinks it is permanently in a password fields. There are many possible culprits for this but almost anything that asks for a password could cause the problem (eg, web password fields, web password managers, VPN connections, |
| Keyboard Maestro will tell you if it detects the system is in Secure Input Mode and if possible indicate the process which is causing the issue in the Keyboard Maestro status menu or by clicking the yellow warning triangle in the bottom right corner of the Keyboard Maestro editor. | Keyboard Maestro will tell you if it detects the system is in Secure Input Mode and if possible indicate the process which is causing the issue in the Keyboard Maestro status menu or by clicking the yellow warning triangle in the bottom right corner of the Keyboard Maestro editor. | ||
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| Note that if a background process enables Secure Input Mode then the system may incorrectly attribute the cause to the current foreground process, which will mislead Keyboard Maestro and then you as to which application is responsible (thanks to Smile Software for reporting this!). | Note that if a background process enables Secure Input Mode then the system may incorrectly attribute the cause to the current foreground process, which will mislead Keyboard Maestro and then you as to which application is responsible (thanks to Smile Software for reporting this!). | ||
| - | Note that there is nothing | + | If Keyboard Maestro |
| - | There is a [[https:// | + | Note that there is nothing Keyboard Maestro can do to “work around” Secure Input Mode - it is a system security feature that has been erroneously left on. Keyboard Maestro can detect |
| - | * [[http://smilesoftware.com/textexpander/secureinput.html# | + | There is a [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/disable-secure-input/ |
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| + | * 1Password | ||
| * Authy | * Authy | ||
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Box |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Chronories |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Firefox |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Fluid |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Game Center |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Google Chrome |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Hulu Desktop |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * iFinance |
| * Keybase | * Keybase | ||
| - | * [[http:// | + | * LastPass |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * loginwindow |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Notational Velocity |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Parallels Desktop 9 and 10 |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Quicken Scheduler |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Safari |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Slack |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Terminal |
| - | * [[http:// | + | * Webroot SecureAnywhere |
| I also have reports of: | I also have reports of: | ||
| - | * Bitwarden | + | |
| + | * Bitwarden | ||
| If you continue to have problems, [[https:// | If you continue to have problems, [[https:// | ||
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