Re: Please give pgAdmin 4 its own GUI. The constant password inputs are driving me insane...

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:51 PM Avin Kavish <avinkavish(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Please refer
https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.10/master_password.html to disable
to the master password.

Thanks,
Khushboo

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:07 PM <tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)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.
>>
>