Hi, 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. > I think we already had this conversation before, regarding disabling the master password. Please refer the email written by you (Subject: How do I remove this stupid "master password"?) in which Richard Coleman has given the detailed steps to disable the master password. Also, you can refer the documentation given by Aditya. Thanks, Khushboo
