Bug #2764 saving passwords obscured breaks mysqladministrator
Submitted: 12 Feb 2004 23:22 Modified: 19 Feb 2004 11:28
Reporter: Ben Balbo Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:1.0.1a-alpha OS:Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to: Michael G. Zinner CPU Architecture:Any

[12 Feb 2004 23:22] Ben Balbo 
Description:
I ran MySQL Administrator a few times without any problems. When I enabled password saving (obscured) and applied changes, went back to the connections manager and updated the connection details with a password typed in I got a "This program has performed an illeg..." popup and quits. Not sure if it's related...

Now everytime I try to start it pukes again.

How to repeat:
I can't. I uninstalled MySQL Administrator and reinstalled it and it still bombs out every time.
[13 Feb 2004 1:29] Michael G. Zinner 
Thanks for reporting!

There is an issue with the Password Storage when set to Obscured.

This will be fixed asap.

In the meanwhile you could take the following steps to workaround this issues:

Please go to c:\Documents and Settings\[YourUsername]\Application Data\MySQL.
Delete all files located in this directory.

Then, after restarting the Administrator, instantly click [...] and change the
Password Storage to plain.
[18 Feb 2004 13:53] Michael G. Zinner 
The issue has been fixed. The fix will be available in the next release 1.0.2a.