Re: Postgres authentication when opening a document

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 20:13 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> When opening a self-hosted or central-hosted document, Glom does not
> prompt for user authentication anymore (I didn't check exactly since
> when, but I guess this is since the user has to activate the network
> share explicitely). Is this by accident, or by intention?

By intention. See NEWS or ChangeLog.

> If the latter is the case, then at least for central hosting, I guess
> we'd have to save the password which the user gave us when creating the
> database in the document,

We now don't ask for a password when creating a document. More
importantly, we don't share over the network by default. That must be
chosen explicitly from the File menu.

>  to be able to connect to it again later (this
> currently fails because of this reason). However, I am not sure whether
> it is a good idea to do so, at least not without letting the user know.

If there is a problem with opening existing documents, please file a
bug, maybe with a test .glom file.


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