macOS: built-in password manager (like iTerm2's) to type a saved password at a prompt

[jaychang418]

What I'd like

A built-in password manager on macOS, like iTerm2's (Window → Password Manager): passwords saved in the macOS Keychain under Ghostty's own access, and a menu item / keybind action that types the chosen password into the focused terminal at a password prompt (e.g. sudo on a remote machine over SSH).

Why

• Moving from iTerm2 to Ghostty, this is the one daily feature I lost. I sudo on a home server over SSH and don't want to type a long password each time.
• Workarounds are clumsy and less safe: a script reading the Keychain with the generic security tool (so any script can read the item without asking) plus a Shortcuts keyboard shortcut to fire it. In my testing the Shortcuts keyboard shortcut didn't fire reliably while Ghostty was in front, so I ended up clicking ▶ in the Shortcuts app.
• With Ghostty owning the Keychain item, access could be limited to Ghostty itself, and it could work well with macos-auto-secure-input.

Possible shape

• A keybind action, e.g. paste_password / password_manager, that opens a small picker of saved entries and types the chosen one (no trailing newline by default, with an option to add Enter).
• Entries stored in the login Keychain with Ghostty-only access.

Thanks for Ghostty, and for considering this.

[rhodes-b]

Please look at the following. #9086

TLDR: every app shouldn't have a builtin password manager ghostty would much rather leave that to something like onepass and have a mechanism it could tell ghostty the password