Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 865578
Master password is asked for before use and not asked for at use
Last modified: 2013-02-13 17:29:53 EST
Description of problem: When Seamonkey starts up, it asks for the master password. When opening the Mail & Newgroups window, it doesn't ask for the master password, even though it should need the master password to unlock passwords for e-mail accounts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.12.1, Gecko/20120912 Firefox/15.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.12.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In Preferences, Privacy & Security, Master Passwords, select "Every time it is needed" 2. Add some e-mail accounts that require passwords, let Seamonkey remember the passwords 3. Restart Seamonkey 4. Seamonkey asks for master password 5. Open Mail & Newsgroups Actual results: 6. Seamonkey doesn't ask for master password, but access the e-mail accounts seamlessly, which indicates that the passwords are unlocked Expected results: 4. Seamonkey should not ask for master password before it is needed 6. Seamonkey should ask for master password, when it is needed to unlock e-mail account passwords Additional info: I'm not sure whether this bug is a general Seamonkey bug or something made by the Fedora team. In the old days I used to build Seamonkey myself (Seamonkey 1.13 on FC5), and the master password thing worked as expected then. Actually it was a requirement/recommendation by the Danish authority behind the so-called Danish public digital signature that people holding such a signature (registered in their browser) should setup their browser to ask for the master password every time the signature was used. That should prevent unauthorized access to the signature.
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