Re: saved passwords deleted

I ran into this and the behavior actually make some sense -- PgAdmin can't
know why the connection was rejected so it has to deal with the possibility
that the stored might be wrong. One idea is for PgAdmin to give an option
of either reconnecting using the stored password or to enter a new one.

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Rohan Carly <rohan(at)digins(dot)net(dot)au> wrote:

> On 5/07/2012 3:57 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 14:50 +0800, Rohan Carly wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/02/2012 6:33 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 05:16 -0600, Michael Shapiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have taken to making a copy of the password file so that when the
>>>>> connection fails and PgAdmin removes the password, I can put it back.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I've found your issue. Here is the way to trigger it:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Start PostgreSQL
>>>> 2. Start pgAdmin
>>>> 3. Connect to your server without typing a password (thanks to .pgpass)
>>>> 4. Disconnect from your server
>>>> 5. Stop PostgreSQL (not pgAdmin)
>>>> 6. Connect to your server
>>>> --> error because PostgreSQL is not started
>>>> 7. Start PostgreSQL
>>>> 8. Connect to your server
>>>> --> pgAdmin asks for your password
>>>> if you click OK here without typing your password, then pgAdmin
>>>> records an empty password in the .pgpass file
>>>>
>>>> The fix I pushed a few minutes ago doesn't allow pgAdmin to record an
>>>> empty password.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose it'll fix your issue. If you can test the current code (master
>>>> or REL-1_14_0_PATCHES), that would be great.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I frequently hit this bug also, using pgAdmin III v.1.14.1 on Windows.
>>>
>>> It is not as complex as step 8 above suggests. Even if you press
>>> [Cancel],
>>> pgAdmin still forgets your password. Perhaps the solution would be to
>>> display
>>> the password prompt in this scenario, but prepopulate it with the
>>> previous
>>> password? Then I could just press OK and continue working.
>>>
>>> I note that the passwords in
>>> C:\Users\rohan\AppData\**Roaming\postgresql\pgpass.conf are in plain
>>> text.
>>>
>>> From reading this thread, and some experimentation, I discovered that
>>> pgAdmin
>>> does not actually delete my password from the pgpass.conf file, even
>>> though it
>>> appears that way from the frontend. Therefore my quickest workaround is
>>> to
>>> completely close out of pgAdmin, open it again, and double-click on the
>>> saved
>>> connection. Provided I have fixed the connection problem (stopped server
>>> etc)
>>> it does not re-prompt for my password. It would still be preferable to
>>> have
>>> this fixed though.
>>>
>>> Have you tried 1.14.3? does it still happen?
>>
>> Yes, the problem is still present in 1.14.3, I just tried it this
> morning. As soon as I get the "server doesn't listen" dialog box, I not
> that I will not be able to connect again without either supplying a
> password, or restarting pgAdmin.
>
>