Closed
Bug 828579
Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Master password does not work when the modem is off.
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 318697
People
(Reporter: edmilson_cruz, Unassigned)
Details
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.
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Updated•11 years ago
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Severity: normal → critical
Comment 1•11 years ago
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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 ?
Severity: critical → normal
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Comment 2•11 years ago
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(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•11 years ago
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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.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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