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From: Akshay Joshi <[email protected]>
To: Khushboo Vashi <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgAdmin4][Patch]- Feature #7012 - disable master password requirement when using alternative auth source
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:49:49 +0530
Message-ID: <CANxoLDf_X=dbuhgoyiHNDNEXJB+bMJCDWME5HyYwthbkR1eyKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFOhELcrv+Rm0bBmXt1-c8NOpsaxinKi=QQTn491dbcUo2xjZA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFOhELcrv+Rm0bBmXt1-c8NOpsaxinKi=QQTn491dbcUo2xjZA@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, the patch applied.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM Khushboo Vashi <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please find the attached patch to implement the feature #7012 - Disable
> master password requirement when using alternative auth source
>
> When pgAdmin stores a connection password, it encrypts it using a key that
> is formed either from the master password, or from the pgAdmin login
> password for the user. In the case of auth methods such as OAuth, Kerberos
> or Webserver, pgAdmin doesn't have access to anything long-lived to form
> the encryption key from, hence it uses the master password. And if the
> master is disabled, there is no way to store the connection password.
>
> To resolve this, we have added an option to config.py (which defaults to
> None) for an alternate encryption key. pgAdmin would use this if a) the
> master password is disabled AND b) there is no suitable key/password
> available from the auth module for the user. If the option is set to
> None, pgAdmin works as it does now.
>
> Thanks,
> Khushboo
>


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