Macpass: Autotype prints "a" the length of the password into Windows Remote Desktop connections

[packplusplus]

Describe the bug
Autotype prints "a" the length of the password into Windows Remote Desktop connections.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to an RDP window, bring up notepad
2. Click back to macpass
3. Change autotype sequence to {PASSWORD}
4. Run autotype
5. RDP window comes back to the forefront, and shows aaaaaaa (the length of the password)

Expected behavior
Autotype should have filled notepad with the correct password

Screenshots
N/A

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• macOS: 10.15.2 (19C57)
• Version: 0.7.10

Additional context
Similar behaviors reported in keepassx for RDP, NxMachine, and VMWare.

• https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/3080

Why this bug matters
The standard way to change a password on a windows server is to press ctl+alt+delete to bring up the change password dialogue. The copy / paste buffer is disabled while that dialogue is up, which means you have to manually type long complex passwords correctly multiple times (old, new, new password).

You can go into computer management and change the administrator password manually, but it comes with scary dialogue boxes telling you to use ctl+alt+delete, and warns of lost information, death, destruction, pestilence, and the salting of your most fertile fields (or maybe just the first one in that list).

[georgesnow]

curious if you use KeePass for windows that would mean you can't copy from a local windows KeePass database either correct?

[mstarke]

This problem is rooted in the way Autotype generates keyboard events. The first system tried to find the appropriate key via a reverse lookup. This worked mostly for Latin based inputs but broke for other keyboard layouts. The current approach sends a keyboard event for the physical key 'a' but with the sting of the required character (the event structure supports this behavior). This seems to work in most cases except your scenario. Currently this is a better trade of than the loss of support for non-Latin keyboard layouts. I might try to fix it I come around to it.

[georgesnow]

@mstarke this could an application for #1017
In that user could use the plugin when bundle id matches ie RDP to drive different auto type function.

[georgesnow]

@packplusplus @mstarke so this appears to fix by Microsoft in the latest update for macOS RDP client v 10.3.8

if you switch to unicode mode it appears AutoType now works properly.

Keyboard shortcut to change to unicode mode:
CTRL+COMMAND+U

so this is awesome.

[cottington]

Yep @georgesnow thanks so much for the tip. Can confirm it works for me too. I was so sad about this for months!