Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-(

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: hushthatbush(at)hushmail(dot)com, "pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-(
Date: 2014-12-19 16:02:27
Message-ID: 54944C13.8000800@2ndquadrant.com
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On 12/19/2014 11:57 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> Right - we'd have to store the entries somewhere based on the target
> server and the SSH config, and dynamically rebuilt the pgpass file
> during the connection process. That seems a) ugly and b) very fragile.

Darn. I thought libpq had a callback for a password prompt, but it doesn't.

Guess we should add that. If libpq gets an auth request from the server
and has no password from the connection string, it should invoke a
callback (if supplied) that lets the client supply a password dynamically.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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