Re: BUG #10250: pgAdmin III 1.16.1 stores unescaped plaintext password

(forwarding to pgadmin-hackers)

On 05/07/2014 06:44 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * dlo@isam.kiwi (dlo@isam.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.

- Heikki