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

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"