Re: You've got to be kidding me... pgAdmin 4 forgets passwords even with a dedicated Firefox profile!

Hi,

You sure you're using "Save Password" checkbox while connecting ?

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:36 AM <tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com> wrote:

> So I went through the trouble of creating a whole separate "profile" in
> Firefox, just for pgAdmin 4. (If you don't, you constantly have to keep
> re-entering the passwords ten times a day because it forgets them when you
> clear the browser data.)
>
> To make a long story short, it was a PITA to set up yet another default
> Firefox, full of user-hostile garbage settings and clutter, but I had to do
> it. It was simply *impossible* to keep using pgAdmin 4 with default
> settings when it forces the use of your webbrowser to function, instead of
> having a proper, isolated GUI/window of some kind.
>
> After a lot of wasted time and energy, sending many e-mails to this
> mailing list and individuals on it, I finally discovered a way to get
> pgAdmin 4 to open my custom profile. Everything seemed to finally be
> solved! I now had pgAdmin 4 always opening in its own, separate Firefox
> instance/profile.
>
> Well, guess what? I just opened pgAdmin 4 and again it asks for the damn
> password... Even though I have definitely not cleared the data in that
> profile. It seems to not happen immediately, but possibly only after a
> restart of the system. I don't know what causes it, but pgAdmin 4 must be
> storing the passwords/settings in a very flimsy and unreliable and "shared"
> manner. Or maybe Firefox is technically at fault with all its own bugs...
> But then again, pgAdmin 4 shouldn't be using Firefox in the first place!
>
> So now I'm back at square one again: I have a database management tool
> which requires constant inputting of (empty) passwords and just won't
> remember them if I do "unknown series of actions" (reset normal profile's
> data and reboot?). I *hate* that extra click and yes, it does matter. It
> makes me really angry every time I have to open that stupid thing and get
> interrupted by that idiotic prompt for passwords, no matter how many times
> I tell it to save it and I don't clear the profile's data.
>
> Why can't people just make software that works and doesn't harass the user
> these days? Is it too much to ask for? Isn't it already bad enough that we
> then have to do all the *actual* work, on top of fighting with our software
> to even function *at all*? Seriously. This is absurd.
>

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Aditya Toshniwal
Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune
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