Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Re: BUG #10250: pgAdmin III 1.16.1 stores unescaped plaintext password

Sure.

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Akshay, can you look into the quoting problem please.
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com) wrote:
> >> (forwarding to pgadmin-hackers)
> >
> > Ah.
> >
> >> On 05/07/2014 06:44 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> >* dlo(at)isam(dot)kiwi (dlo(at)isam(dot)kiwi) wrote:
> >> >>but when the credential contains the delimiter (colon) it fails to be
> >> >>read back out and app responds with "invalid credentials".
> >> >>
> >> >>x.x.x.x:5432:*:username:password:with:colons
> >> >
> >> >Per the fine documentation, you need to escape any such usage with a
> >> >backslash. Please review:
> >>
> >> Stephen, you missed the context. pgadmin3 saves .pgpass, when you
> >> check the "store password" checkbox in the connection dialog. And
> >> apparantly pgadmin3 doesn't do that escaping properly.
> >
> > Wow, that's pretty rough. Hopefully they'll be able to fix it soon. :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stephen
>
>
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