110988 - Forcing news server authentication with username/password

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39862

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Alexis Birkill]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    2001101117

I have access to a news server which will give me different levels of use
depending on whether I use a username/password.  If I use no username or
password, it will allow me to log in to the news server, but not to list or
access any groups.  To do this, I need to log in with my username/password.

Mozilla will not allow me to enter a username/password for this news server, as
it detects that it can log in without a u/p, and hence will not allow me to
access any groups.

Netscape (4.76, Win2k) has an option if you right-click on the news server you
are interested in - it allows you to choose from two radio buttons - always ask
for a username/password, and ask for a username/password when necessary. 
Mozilla appears to default to the second option without giving the ability to
change this.

I have asked in the #mozilla chat channel, and other users are unable to find an
option to change this - this suggests it doesn't apply merely to the Windows
version, but I cannot confirm this absolutely.

I have checked with another newsreader (Free Agent) which allows me to specify a
username/password or not - when I do, it asks for one and works perfectly.  When
I don't specify a u/p in Free Agent, it replicates the activity of Mozilla -
logs in but lists no groups.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Not really 'reproducable', the option simply appears not to exist anywhere in
the UI.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Stephen, do you know of a bug which covers this case already?

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Yes, it's called 'Pushed Authentication', and is fixed via prefs, but currently
has no UI yet.  Bug 39862.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39862 ***

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

For UI specific issues, please see bug 94439 and bug 94440.

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 131598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***