Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-( - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-(
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Msg-id 54944C13.8000800@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-(  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Re: Massively annoying bug still not fixed in v1.20 :-(
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On 12/19/2014 11:57 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> Right - we'd have to store the entries somewhere based on the target
> server and the SSH config, and dynamically rebuilt the pgpass file
> during the connection process. That seems a) ugly and b) very fragile.

Darn. I thought libpq had a callback for a password prompt, but it doesn't.

Guess we should add that. If libpq gets an auth request from the server
and has no password from the connection string, it should invoke a
callback (if supplied) that lets the client supply a password dynamically.

-- Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services



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