Re: pgAdmin4 4.8 Kubuntu issues

Dave, 

And where would that be?  pgAdmin4 the executable and the shared library is located in /usr/bin/.  There are no entries in /etc/ for pgAdmin4.  There is a pgadmin4.db in /home/u/.pgadmin/  but no config files of any kind there either. 

So it's looking like the only way to actually use the current version of pgAdmin4 is to create an undocumented file (the help page says you can use config.py as a reference, but guess what?  That file doesn't exist either.) in an unknown location, and manually add the magic string; 

"MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=False"

I get why you added this feature, but I think it was implemented completely backwards.  Instead of making every end user jump through these ridiculous hoops just to continue to use pgAdmin4 as they had been up to this point, a better option would be to allow security conscious sys admins to add the configuration:

 "MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=True"

to a non-user writable configuration file.  In that way the vast majority of people running pgAdmin4 can continue to do so and the few that wanted/needed the added security could do so as well.

So, now I'm using dBeaver as I can't disable the Master Password dialog box and pgAdmin4 won't let me do anything.

Any other thoughts?  Anyone?

Thanks, 

rik.

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:03 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 2:44 PM richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@gmail.com> wrote:

Dave, 

Sorry, but after an exhaustive search of the several terabytes on my machine, there is no config_local.py file.  Do you have any idea where it's supposed to be located?

You need to create it if it doesn't exist, in the same directory as pgAdmin's config.py.

 

Thanks,

rik.

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:30 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:16 PM richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@gmail.com> wrote:

Cherio, 

I am sorry to inform you, but there is no mention of "config_local.py" on that page, nor any indication of where I would find it.

https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.x/desktop_deployment.html#configuration

 

rik.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 5:06 PM Cherio <cherio@gmail.com> wrote:

Put "MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED = False" line into your "lib/python?.?/site-packages/pgadmin4/config_local.py". This is in the docs: https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/dev/master_password.html

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:41 PM richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@gmail.com> wrote:

To whomever, 

Running a newly update pgAdmin 4 version 4.8 on my Kubuntu box.  There are a couple of glaring issues.

First: It keeps prompting to; "Set Master Password"

    I don't want to set another password that I'll just end up forgetting.

Second: When I click the "?" button on that dialog box it takes me to this page:

"http://127.0.0.1:33681/help/help/master_password.html"

Which returns "404 Not Found"

Hopefully there is a simple solution to these issues.

Thanks, 

rik.

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