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Missing feature on Windows: ask for password every time

Open huyphams opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

  1. Which driver are you using and version of it (Ex: PostgreSQL 10.0): PostgreSQL 12

  2. Which TablePlus build number are you using (the number on the welcome screen, Ex: build 81): Build 136 for WIndows

  3. The steps to reproduce this issue: Just try to create a connection

So basically the title says it. In MacOS version you can select "Ask every time" next to the password input. I suppose this will make TablePlus to not store the password anywhere on disk. At least it really asks for a password every time I connect to a DB. However, in Windows version there is no such dropdown. If I leave the password input blank, TablePlus doesn't ask me for a password on connect, it just fails with "fe_sendauth: no password supplied" (which is good because I potentially can configure PG to not ask for a password at all). I'm afraid this is a security concern and this is really a must-have feature in Windows version (I suppose you store passwords encrypted but still I would prefer to not store it at all).

Moved from: https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus/issues/2021

huyphams avatar Aug 06 '20 02:08 huyphams

+1 That would be a very useful feature on an otherwise very complete app

Stomp9 avatar Mar 17 '21 14:03 Stomp9

I've been using HeidiSQL, which has this feature. I was all set to move over to TablePlus, but this is kind of a show-stopper for me. My use case is that I'm connecting to RDS instances which are set up such that you need to run a command through aws-cli to generate a temporary password to log in to the database. The password is different every time and it is only valid for a few minutes. It would be a real pain to have to edit the password every time I want to log on to one of the remote databases opposed to being prompted on connection.

hexpunk avatar Sep 19 '22 19:09 hexpunk