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

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.toshniwal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi,

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

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:36 AM <tutiluren@tutanota.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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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"