Re: pgAdmin4-9.5 password textbox missing in connection settings

Hi

On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 at 07:16, Akshay Joshi <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi Richard/Dave,
>
> If the server is already registered, the *Password* textbox will not be
> visible—this has been the intended behavior for many years, if I recall
> correctly. When you attempt to connect, the system will prompt you for the
> password if it hasn’t been saved previously.
>

That seems odd - we normally try to disable rather than hide controls that
are not needed in a particular context; precisely to avoid this kind of
confusion.

>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard/Dave,
>>
>> I'm on 9.5 on my Mac and I can see the password textbox
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 at 16:28, richard coleman <
>>> rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've recently upgraded to pgAdmin4-9.5 from pgAdmin4-9.1 on Windows 10.
>>>> Apparently the Password textbox in the Connection tab has been removed.
>>>>
>>>> Why has this change been made?
>>>> How do I get it back?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Both good questions - I see the same issue on macOS.
>>>
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>>> Dave Page
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>>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Aditya Toshniwal
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>>
>

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