Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 84419
network browser remembers wrong password, unable to change
Last modified: 2015-01-07 19:03:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030120 Description of problem: When browsing to the smb network servers and accessing a share, one gets prompted for a username and password, if you enter the wrong one, it accesses the share as read only. the problem is that you are unable to reenter your password, even closing down nautilus and getting to the share again accesses it read only again. i found no way of accessing it rw without logging out and in againg, which is pretty annoying when i enter the wrong password i should get prompted to enter the right one Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. browse to a network share 2. mistype in the password 3. try to acces the filesystem in rw mode Actual Results: the wrong password gets cached and i am unable to access the share in rw mode Expected Results: it should've prompted for the correct password or provided some way to give up the cached password or something. Additional info:
Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/) for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the 'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. You are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.
Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.