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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Calder [mailto:r-calder@onebox.com]
> Sent: 15 March 2002 15:38
> To: dpage@pgadmin.org
> Subject: pgAdminII bug ?
>
>
> pgAdminII 1.2.0
> win2k sp2 + all current patches
> server is on Red Hat linux 7.2
> postgresql-7.1.3-2
>
> The "Connect to Server" screen will not accept the
> following characters in the
> password field : }{
>
> If I change my login password on the linux server to
> remove those characters, I can
> login just fine.
Yes, those are special characters in the connection string. I guess we're
not quoting the password properly - I'll take a look.
> Weirdness : My normal password has the sequence }{
> Using it will produce the error in the attached file.
> If I tell pgAdmin my password uses {} (note the reverse) then
> it lets me in just fine, and this
> is without changing Linux, on Linux it still is the }{ !
That sounds like your client is trusted by the postgresql server (check
$PGDATA/pg_hba.conf). On my test system I get password authentication
failed.
Thanks for the report,
Regards, Dave.