828579 - Master password does not work when the modem is off.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318697

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[edmilson_cruz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

I opened the program before connecting the modem.


Actual results:

The master password did not appear and the messages could be accessed.


Expected results:

When the connection is off, the Master Password isn't work.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

When the modem is off, the connection to a mail server can not be established.
Without connection, there is no mail server asking for a password and hence no masterpassword is requested from the user to access the stored passwords.

Do you think that the masterpasswords protects your stored emails on your local system ?

Comment 2

[edmilson_cruz]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #1)
> When the modem is off, the connection to a mail server can not be
> established.
> Without connection, there is no mail server asking for a password and hence
> no masterpassword is requested from the user to access the stored passwords.
> 
> Do you think that the masterpasswords protects your stored emails on your
> local system ?

Yes, Matthias. I thought. Otherwise, why to exist a master password?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Your stored passwords that are needed to access your email server are encrypted with the masterpassword. It only secures your passwords and not Thunderbird itself

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318697#c60 explains this.