++pgadmin-hackers On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:51 AM Aditya Toshniwal < aditya.toshni...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > If it is regarding master password, then as per the docs - > https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/latest/master_password.html - *"The > master password is not stored anywhere on the physical storage. It is > temporarily stored in the application memory and it does not get saved when > the application is restarted."* > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:42 AM Aditya Toshniwal < > aditya.toshni...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> You sure you're using "Save Password" checkbox while connecting ? >> >> [image: Screenshot 2019-08-21 at 11.40.28.png] >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:36 AM <tutilu...@tutanota.com> wrote: >> >>> So I went through the trouble of creating a whole separate "profile" in >>> Firefox, just for pgAdmin 4. (If you don't, you constantly have to keep >>> re-entering the passwords ten times a day because it forgets them when you >>> clear the browser data.) >>> >>> To make a long story short, it was a PITA to set up yet another default >>> Firefox, full of user-hostile garbage settings and clutter, but I had to do >>> it. It was simply *impossible* to keep using pgAdmin 4 with default >>> settings when it forces the use of your webbrowser to function, instead of >>> having a proper, isolated GUI/window of some kind. >>> >>> After a lot of wasted time and energy, sending many e-mails to this >>> mailing list and individuals on it, I finally discovered a way to get >>> pgAdmin 4 to open my custom profile. Everything seemed to finally be >>> solved! I now had pgAdmin 4 always opening in its own, separate Firefox >>> instance/profile. >>> >>> Well, guess what? I just opened pgAdmin 4 and again it asks for the damn >>> password... Even though I have definitely not cleared the data in that >>> profile. It seems to not happen immediately, but possibly only after a >>> restart of the system. I don't know what causes it, but pgAdmin 4 must be >>> storing the passwords/settings in a very flimsy and unreliable and "shared" >>> manner. Or maybe Firefox is technically at fault with all its own bugs... >>> But then again, pgAdmin 4 shouldn't be using Firefox in the first place! >>> >>> So now I'm back at square one again: I have a database management tool >>> which requires constant inputting of (empty) passwords and just won't >>> remember them if I do "unknown series of actions" (reset normal profile's >>> data and reboot?). I *hate* that extra click and yes, it does matter. It >>> makes me really angry every time I have to open that stupid thing and get >>> interrupted by that idiotic prompt for passwords, no matter how many times >>> I tell it to save it and I don't clear the profile's data. >>> >>> Why can't people just make software that works and doesn't harass the >>> user these days? Is it too much to ask for? Isn't it already bad enough >>> that we then have to do all the *actual* work, on top of fighting with our >>> software to even function *at all*? Seriously. This is absurd. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks and Regards, >> Aditya Toshniwal >> Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune >> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE" >> > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Aditya Toshniwal > Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune > "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE" > -- Thanks and Regards, Aditya Toshniwal Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
