Re: Password exec troubleshooting

Hello pgadmin-support

Long-time user, first time emailing.

I’m trying to use the Password exec feature to fetch a secret from AWS Secrets Manager. I’ve created both a python script and then a sh script and neither work. Oddly nothing about password exec is reported in logs. I just get the error below. 

pgAdmin 4 v 9.7 as desktop app

python 3.13.7

macOS 15.7.1

Things I’ve tried:

• Executing either script from the command line works as expected and returns just the password string.
• scripts have chmod +x for all users.
• I’ve provided the full path to script in the Password exec entry
• Tried quoting and escaping command line.
• The shell script uses aws cli and full path is provided in script.
• Moved the script to the ~/Library/Application Support/pgAdmin 4 in case macOS disk access issues were in play.

Error:

connection failed: connection to server at “10.x.x.x", port 5432 failed: could not initiate GSSAPI security context: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information: Cannot find KDC for realm "KERBEROS.MICROSOFTONLINE.COM"

connection to server at “10.x.x.x", port 5432 failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

From what I can parse of source code, I don’t think the ENABLE_SERVER_PASS_EXEC_CMD comes into play as I’m not operating in server mode.

Does anyone have examples of a config that works?

Any advice on how I can debug further? 

Thanks for any pointers!