> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 17 February 2006 14:35
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Change password issue
> 
> Dave Page wrote:
> > I spotted an issue with the change password dialogue today; 
> if you have
> > connected using trust authentication, or a password in 
> pgpass.conf, then
> > there is no way to change the password because the pgServer object
> > doesn't know what the original one is.
> > 
> > The simple fix would be to remove the 'enter old password' 
> requirement,
> > but that just doesn't feel right. For pgpass connections we 
> could try to
> > retrieve the password from the file, but there is no way for trusted
> > connections that I can see.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> On the TODO list. 

It is? Can't see it for looking :-(

> As soon as we encrypt the password to 
> create the SQL 
> we can ask for the password, encrypt and check against 
> pg_authid ourselves.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

/D

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