Re: (Repeat.) Please give pgAdmin 4 its own GUI. The constant password inputs are driving me insane...

richard coleman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.pgadmin
Message-ID <CAGA3vBv+4UGYgUMb5Af2rG8=dQS0K-hEL-AL7wok-KRZF+_UYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Darren,

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:03 PM Darren Duncan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Have you tried using more than one browser?
> that's what I've taken to doing, I have a separate install of Chromium
> just for pgAdmin4.  I've even changed the browser command to
> Load pgAdmin and/or a small number of secured things you want to stay
> logged in
> for longer periods, while do your majority of activities or the ones you'd
> want
> to clear your browser for in others.
>
> I for example have Safari plus Firefox plus Chrome and compartmentalize my
> activity between them, and they're all mutually isolated.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
> On 2019-07-27 5:54 a.m., [email protected] wrote:
> > Sorry for repeating this, but the only replies I got were unrelated to
> what I
> > typed, instead briefly discussing master passwords.
> >
> >     Every single day, even after getting rid of the "master password"
> nonsense
> >     (which was a nightmare in itself), pgAdmin keeps asking me, again
> and again,
> >     to enter the password when I try to connect to my servers. This is
> cleared
> >     every single time I clear my browser data, which is an absolute
> necessity
> >     multiple times a day.
> >
> >     I don't want pgAdmin to have anything to do with my browser, and
> dealing
> >     with multiple "profiles" is very impractical and tedious to set up.
> I don't
> >     want them connected whatsoever. Please make a proper GUI that is
> entirely
> >     separate from your "normal browser", allowing it to remember
> passwords and
> >     not constantly forget them because it's attached to your normal
> browser's data.
> >
> >     The GUI can be an embedded browser and has no need whatsoever for
> constant
> >     security updates because all it does is load pgAdmin 4's code. It
> doesn't
> >     need to be able to do anything else, nor should it be able to. It
> shouldn't
> >     even be apparent to the user that it's a browser at all -- it should
> just
> >     open a GUI window with pgAdmin 4 inside of it -- not rely on my
> browser
> >     environment.
> >
> >     I almost recall that this actually was done in the past. Why you
> would
> >     abandon this idea is inexplicable to me, since "just using the normal
> >     browser" causes so many annoying problems.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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