1104740 - user authentication for viewing saved passwords

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1194529

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Binoy Balu]

Attachment: saved pass.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141013200257

Steps to reproduce:

click on 
Options>Preferences>Security>Saved Passwords>Show Passwords


Actual results:

It gives a confirmation box which says "Are you sure you wish to show your passwords?" and when the user clicks "yes" . It'll enlist the passwords. 


Expected results:

Instead if a confirmation box the user password of the system must be prompted so it do respect the privacy at the peak.

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

If you set a master password, you will be prompted for it in this case along with every time a password is is used.