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

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:51 AM Aditya Toshniwal <
aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If it is regarding master password, then as per the docs -
> https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/latest/master_password.html - *"The
> master password is not stored anywhere on the physical storage. It is
> temporarily stored in the application memory and it does not get saved when
> the application is restarted."*
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:42 AM Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You sure you're using "Save Password" checkbox while connecting ?
>>
>> [image: Screenshot 2019-08-21 at 11.40.28.png]
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Aditya Toshniwal
>> Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune
>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards,
> Aditya Toshniwal
> Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune
> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>

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Thanks and Regards,
Aditya Toshniwal
Software Engineer | EnterpriseDB India | Pune
"Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"