Sysadmin Paste into KVM

Wanted to post this as a future reference.

Needed to login to a server via the hosts KVM feature. My password was very long and typing it out resulted in a timeout.

Found information online about how to paste into a KVM. This tut is for Linux machines.

If you are using linux on your workstation there is an OS setting that can allow for one-way paste.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04, this is what I did:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xdotool xclip  

2. Open up the Keyboard settings and click on shortcuts tab.
3. Created new custom shortcut named "SendKeys" with this command:

Code:

sh -c 'sleep 1.0; xdotool type "$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)"'

4. Assign Ctrl+Shift+B to the shorcut

Now I can simply press Ctrl+Shift+B and the OS will type out whatever is on my clipboard.
Don't hold Ctrl+Shift+B down longer than one second or unexpected things will happen (potentially causing harm), if this causes you issues increase the sleep time in the command.

Credit:
noVNC: copy paste not works

 

The above is what I had to do for OVH.