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

From: richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>
Cc: tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com, Pgadmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: (Repeat.) Please give pgAdmin 4 its own GUI. The constant password inputs are driving me insane...
Date: 2019-07-27 19:38:49
Message-ID: CAGA3vBv+4UGYgUMb5Af2rG8=dQS0K-hEL-AL7wok-KRZF+_UYQ@mail.gmail.com
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Darren,

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:03 PM Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>
wrote:

> Have you tried using more than one browser?
> that's what I've taken to doing, I have a separate install of Chromium
> just for pgAdmin4. I've even changed the browser command to
> Load pgAdmin and/or a small number of secured things you want to stay
> logged in
> for longer periods, while do your majority of activities or the ones you'd
> want
> to clear your browser for in others.
>
> I for example have Safari plus Firefox plus Chrome and compartmentalize my
> activity between them, and they're all mutually isolated.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
> On 2019-07-27 5:54 a.m., tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com wrote:
> > Sorry for repeating this, but the only replies I got were unrelated to
> what I
> > typed, instead briefly discussing master passwords.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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