I'm curious to know where the need for the master password arose and whether it can be disabled or made optional. I don't believe it is needed for personal PCs, the OS login is enough protection.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:07 PM <tutilu...@tutanota.com> wrote: > Every single day, even after getting rid of the "master password" nonsense > (which was a nightmare in itself), pgAdmin keeps asking me, again and > again, to enter the password when I try to connect to my servers. This is > cleared every single time I clear my browser data, which is an absolute > necessity multiple times a day. > > I don't want pgAdmin to have anything to do with my browser, and dealing > with multiple "profiles" is very impractical and tedious to set up. I don't > want them connected whatsoever. Please make a proper GUI that is entirely > separate from your "normal browser", allowing it to remember passwords and > not constantly forget them because it's attached to your normal browser's > data. > > The GUI can be an embedded browser and has no need whatsoever for constant > security updates because all it does is load pgAdmin 4's code. It doesn't > need to be able to do anything else, nor should it be able to. It shouldn't > even be apparent to the user that it's a browser at all -- it should just > open a GUI window with pgAdmin 4 inside of it -- not rely on my browser > environment. > > I almost recall that this actually was done in the past. Why you would > abandon this idea is inexplicable to me, since "just using the normal > browser" causes so many annoying problems. >
