pgAdmin failed to save password for users - postgresql

I have pgAdmin (dpage/pgadmin4:4.29) container running in Kubernetes. As a master user I have added Database connections and share the connection. I can disconnect/reconnect to database without password as a master user.
But for additional users I have created, those users password are not getting saved even they have selected Save Password option at the time of connection. pgAdmin keep asking for password when connecting to DB.
What I am missing in my setup.

NobleUplift's issue of the "Save Password" checkbox being disabled can be caused by certain config flags in the config.py file. Remembering passwords for SSH tunneling is disabled by default, for example.
You can re-enable the checkbox by writing
ALLOW_SAVE_TUNNEL_PASSWORD = True # SSH tunnel password saving, default False
ALLOW_SAVE_PASSWORD = True # database password saving, default True
to a new config_local.py file in the same directory where you find your main config.py file. Pg discourages writing the the main config.py file directly. See the docs for more details about the preferred config file and where to find them. (I found mine under "pgAdmin 4\v6\web\config.py", not where the docs said.)
This seems to be where the 'disable password saving' idea came from.
Apologies roy for not answering your question directly, but I didn't have the ability to respond directly to Noble. However, the config docs also mention that the ENHANCED_COOKIE_PROTECTION flag can interfere with Kubernetes (and other auth settings), which might be worth a look.

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Databases in psql Don't Show up in PgAdmin4

I installed Postgres
and followed the instruction. I create a database and logged in by the master password but I don't find the database even the + mark is not shown in the servers. can anyone help, please?
Unlike in pgAdmin3, with pgAdmin4,here you have to manually connect to a running postgres server andyou already have your specific database (DB) created.
So to set the stage, make sure you have the postgres server is running, and that you have created that DB already too.
Notice (in the image) that I CREATE database XYZ and GRANT all privileges to default user postgres. (Note; to work properly with pgAdmin4, you have to create a user called postgres in order to be able to connect with and log in to pgAdmin4.)
Then here are some quick steps to follow:
When within pgAdmin4, right-click the Servers option and select create.
Note:
In the image you'll see (1) next to "Servers" because I have done this process already. Kindly ignore that).
Select "server group" if you have many servers that you want to better manage. For most basic use cases, go ahead and select "server" (like I did).
For either option you select above, you'll get a pop-box to complete the "connection process". I selected "server" which is appropriate for your use case (see image below).
Note:
"name" field is required
As you can see already, enter a name (I went with "postgres" since it's what I was used to by default in pgAdmin3, but you can enter any name).
Notice the "connect now" checkbox is checked by default so as soon as the process is successful, your DB should display in the sidemenu. (This is a key to confirm that you entered the right info). But you can always uncheck this, to connect later.
Now, click connection tab and you see the image below.
The key fields to fill here, to keep it simple, are host name/address and password. Remember to save after entering your info.
Note:
If on connecting to local machine, localhost or http://127.0.0.1 should do. (I did "localhost")
If connecting to a DB instance in the cloud e.g. AWS, enter the endpoint in the host space. Here's more from AWS
A lot of the other fields have the default settings used when installing postgres and pgAdmin.
If you followed the steps above properly, then you should see something like this after you save.
Here's a good guide from the pgAdmin documentation
In case you created your database as template CREATE DATABASE ... IS_TEMPLATE =true, then the database is considered as "system object" and is not shown in the list if PgAdmin4 option "Show system objects?" is set to false.
Try menu File -> Preferences, in the tree find Browser -> Display, and the option is at the bottom.
Another option is to remove the template option:
ALTER DATABASE xxx IS_TEMPLATE = false
and then you will see your database without changing PgAdmin preferences.
I followed the introductory advice from #MwamiTovi but I still did not have an option to create a server as he noted. However, I was able to get my databases to appear by clicking menu option Object -> Register -> Server and type in the information (hostname/address, port) from my associated psql setup.
This was using PG Admin 4.19 on macOS Big Sur.

How do I view a PostgreSQL database on heroku with a GUI?

I have a rails app on heroku that is using a Postgre database. My database has > 40 tables and > 10,000 rows. I would like to delete a lot of data, but it would be much easier if I was able to view and interact with it in a GUI table. I can access my data in rails console, but it's taking too long.
pgweb is a great cross-platform GUI, and it's easy to connect to your Heroku Postgres when launching from the command line.
I installed via Homebrew on a Mac (brew install pgweb), but instructions for other platforms are listed on the site. Here's how I launch pgweb connected to a Heroku Postgres DB:
heroku config:get DATABASE_URL | xargs pgweb --url
And if you want to connect to your localhost:
pgweb --host localhost
I'm a little late here, but this may help someone else who stumbles across this thread...
If you go to your Heroku app's dashboard (through the website) > settings > "Reveal Config Vars" > DATABASE_URL, and paste that URL into the browser.
I use TablePlus for database management, when I paste the link into the browser it asks if it can open TablePlus and then I can edit my production database in real time just like I would in development.
I'm not sure what pasting the URL into the browser will do if you don't have TablePlus. I assume it will request to open any other SQL management app you might have.
As slumdog wrote in the comment to your question, you can use pgAdmin, which comes with your local Postgres installation.
This article explains how to connect your remote heroku db with pgAdmin, using heroku credentials: https://medium.com/#vapurrmaid/getting-started-with-heroku-postgres-and-pgadmin-run-on-part-2-90d9499ed8fb
From the article:
"pgAdmin is a GUI for postgresql databases that can be used to access and modify databases that not only exist locally, but also remotely. For a fresh install of pgAdmin, the dashboard likely contains only one server. This is your local server...
We have to configure a new remote server with its credentials.
right click server(s) > create > server …
Fill out the following:
Name: This is solely for you. Name it whatever you want, I chose ‘Heroku-Run — On’
Under the connection tab: hostname/address. If you go back to your datastores ‘reveal credentials’, this is the host credential. It should look like --**...amazonaws.com
Keep the port at 5432, unless your credentials list otherwise
Maintenance database — this is the database field in the credentials
Username — this is the user field in the credentials
Password — the password field in the credentials. I highly advise checking save password so that you don’t have to copypasta this every time you want to connect.
In the SSL tab, mark SSL mode as require
At this point, if we were to hit ‘save’ (please don’t), something very strange would happen. You’d see hundreds if not thousands of databases appear in pgAdmin. This has to do with how Heroku configures their servers. You’ll still only have access to your specific database, not those of others. In order to avoid parsing so many databases, we have to white list only those databases we care about.
go to the Advanced tab and under db restriction copy the database name (it’s the same value as the Maintenance database field filled earlier)."
Article contains other usefull guidelines and screenshots.
Try GUI of DBWeaver.
https://dbeaver.io/
Download it, after that you can connect your heroku postgres using Database Credentials data.
You can use Heroku's hosted DB viewer on the Overview pane of your dashboard:
Create and click the Dataclip:
Dataclip GUI is fairly easy to use, we can type and customize SQL queries at the top etc.

Couldn't drop staging_database : #<PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf

For a system that I am using, I run into the problem pasted on the title when I try to drop a database and recreate it. More specifically, this is the exact problem that I am facing:
Couldn't drop staging_databse : #<PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host xxx.xx.xxxx.xxx, user "ruby", database "postgres", SSL off
I've done some research regarding this problem and it seems that the solution is simply to turn on SSL. I've consulted Postgresql Documentation on pg_hba.conf but I'm unable to find this configuration file.
I typed in locate postgresql and I noticed that there is a postgresql-client-9.2 installed on the system. From what I have determined, I won't find this pg_hba.conf file because the client doesn't have it. I've also looked for the postgresql.conf file on SSL according to the official documentation but this file is not included either.
Finally, the documentation shows me this configuration option of the pgsql 9.2 client shown below:
libpq reads the system-wide OpenSSL configuration file. By default,
this file is named openssl.cnf and is located in the directory reported by
openssl version -d. This default can be overridden by setting environment
variable OPENSSL_CONF to the name of the desired configuration file.
However, this too isn't in my system. I've run the linux find command and this file doesn't seem to be there. I've run out of leagues and I have a sneaking suspicion that I am overlooking something very simple. Is there any other leads I can go on? Thanks.
Based on this message and the rest of the context:
FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host xxx.xx.xxxx.xxx, user "ruby", database "postgres", SSL off
It looks plausible that:
you're connecting to a remote PostgreSQL instance which you don't administrate because you're acting as developer, not admin.
the db management layer tries to connect to the database named postgres in order to drop another database (staging_database) . It's necessary indeed because we can't drop a database when we're connected to it (in fact, a database can't be dropped when anyone is connected to it).
the admin policy established by the remote pg_hba.conf is such that your login and IP address together are not allowed to connect to the database named postgres
These facts combined together imply that you're missing the necessary rights to drop your database, even if indirectly.
At this point you want to submit the problem to the admin responsible for that PostgreSQL server.

Moving ejabberd default DB to MySQL shows authentication failure

I am trying to setup an ejabberd server on my Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance.
With the default DB Provided by ejabberd, I can easily setup my connection. But I need to replace the mnesia DB with MySQL. I found some tutorials over the internet. From those tutorial I found out a solution. I will explain it as step by step.
I am using ejabberd 2.1.11. I made the following changes on ejabberd.cfg file
Commented the following line :
{auth_method, internal}
Uncommented this:
{auth_method, odbc}
Configured my MySQL DB
{odbc_server, {mysql, "localhost", "students", "root", ""}} // No Password set
Change mod_last to mod_last_odbc
Change mod_offline to mod_offline_odbc
Change mod_roster to mod_roster_odbc
Change mod_private to mod_private_odbc
Change mod_privacy to mod_privacy_odbc
Change mod_pubsub to mod_pubsub_odbc
Change mod_vcard to mod_vcard_odbc
Then I installed ejabberd-mysql driver from the following link
http://stefan-strigler.de/2009/01/14/ejabberd-mysql-drivers-for-debian-and-ubuntu/
After making all these changes I restarted my ejabberd server.
Then I tried to login to my ejabberd server. It shows me the login prompt.
After entering the credentials it takes a lot time and then displays authentication failed.
Any help on the topic is appreciated.
Let's dig into problem
Your setup is working that means your config file is fine. But then
Why does auth fails ?
What schema you have in your students database ?
If you have a proper schema installed then does the user present in ur db's users table?
Have you also updated conf/odbc.ini with proper mysql details.
Even if both the conditions meet then I'll advice you to set mysql password and try again.
Let me know if that helps or not.
Update :-
update your config with {loglevel, 5}
then hit the login and tail all the log files.
odbc.ini
1 [ejabberd]
2 Driver = MySQL
3 DATABASE = students
4 PWD =
5 SERVER = localhost
6 SOCKET = /tmp/mysql.sock
7 UID = root
One Major basic part that one can easily miss is that data which was previously stored in mnesia database will no longer will be available for your new configuration so again you have to create one admin user like this to access your admin account.
./ejabberdctl register admin "password"

What is the default username and password for PostgreSQL?

I am working on an open source application that has PostgreSQL as its default DBMS. Now when I install it on my system, its configuration is so that PostgreSQL also gets installed with it.
My problem is with getting access to the installed PostgreSQL database. The database that gets created during installation is named iviewdb.
I read at many forums that the default superuser is postgres, but when I try to get access to the database using this username through a command prompt, it prompts me for password that I don't have.
I wanted to know from where in the PostgreSQL installation directory
the default username and password with the port number to access the database is stored. I have even tried changing the pg_hba.conf file, but that creates a problem with the application and it won't start then.
How can I find the password for this database? I am working in a Windows environment.
The password isn't stored in an easily recoverable manner, and if you change the password, the application may not be able to access the database properly. You may find the password in the application settings or documentation, though.
If you decide to risk changing the postgres user's password, stop the application and PostgreSQL service, and then edit pg_hba.conf. Add (or change if it already exists) a line (if it doesn't exist, add it before any other "host...." lines):
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
And restart the PostgreSQL service. That should give you access from localhost, where you could change the postgres user's password, or add yourself another user with the permissions you want. Then set the pg_hba.conf file back the way it was and restart.
I've encountered this similar problem, and I noticed that the default being set for PostgreSQL upon installation in my case is as follows:
username = postgres
password = ' '