Re: Change password issue

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de]
> Sent: 17 February 2006 14:35
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Change password issue
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > I spotted an issue with the change password dialogue today;
> if you have
> > connected using trust authentication, or a password in
> pgpass.conf, then
> > there is no way to change the password because the pgServer object
> > doesn't know what the original one is.
> >
> > The simple fix would be to remove the 'enter old password'
> requirement,
> > but that just doesn't feel right. For pgpass connections we
> could try to
> > retrieve the password from the file, but there is no way for trusted
> > connections that I can see.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> On the TODO list.

It is? Can't see it for looking :-(

> As soon as we encrypt the password to
> create the SQL
> we can ask for the password, encrypt and check against
> pg_authid ourselves.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

/D