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From Aditya Toshniwal
Subject Re: Use system key vault for storing passwords, master password alternative
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Msg-id CAM9w-_=qqiSYmPJUUOaDLUHsw=qVPbiDQTnU+rN6d_4B8HhV3w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Use system key vault for storing passwords, master password alternative  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:56 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
Hi

On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 at 07:50, Aditya Toshniwal <aditya.toshniwal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
Hi Hackers/Dave,

Master password was added to encrypt passwords saved in pgAdmin config DB. While it is needed for security reasons, it has to be entered and remembered.
I propose, pgAdmin desktop version can utilize the OS provided password vault to save PG server passwords, just like browsers save website login details.
The Python lib - https://pypi.org/project/keyring/ can be used for multi

Thoughts ?

How did I miss that ? Thank you. :P 

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