Re: Moving pgadmin4.db to a new server

Hi,

Yes it is throwing error due to password salt, It would be better if you
follow steps from
https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.14/import_export_servers.html for
migration.

Please note that as of now there is no way of exporting pgAdmin4 settings.

-- Murtuza

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, 21:55 Jan Birk, <jan(dot)g(dot)birk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are running pgadmin4 v 3.4 and are migration to a new server and a new
> version 4.12..
>
> We have copied the old pgadmin4.db to the new server in order to keep the
> users settings and passwords. Settings is working but not the passwords. We
> get an
>
> "Failed to decrypt the saved password. Error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode
> byte 0x92 in position 0: invalid start byte"
>
> Maybe this is related to some salt in the passwords but I am not sure.
>
> How should we correctly migrate from one server to another ?
>
> Best and thanks for a very good application. It's just getting better and
> better.
>
> /Jan
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