122476 - Mail/News fails to authenticate to News server using stored username and password

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78356

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Greg K.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

Although a username and password for a News server Account is stored in the
Password Manager, Mail/News continues to prompt for authentication each time
Mozilla is run and the Account is accessed.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a News account that requires authentication
2. Access the Account and enter the username and password when prompted to do
so, being sure to indicate that they should be stored in the Password Manager
3. Quit Mozilla and restart
4. Access the News Account again

Actual Results:  Mozilla prompted for username and password entry again,
ignoring the Password Manager entries.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have used the entries from the Password Manager.

Mozilla will sometimes even do this without having to quit. Mozilla will
sometimes prompt for username/password authentication for *each group* on the
server the user tries to access! Insanity!

This has been going on for a long time, as well; at least a year.

This is probably an All/All problem, but I'll leave that to confirmers.

Comment 1

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Greg, thanks for this excellent report.  Please see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78356#c9 and verify this is a DUP if
you and I think the same thing. (read all the comments, actually).



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78356 ***

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Stephen, I, too, have noticed that Password Manager will try to store
username/password pairs for individual newsgroups.

However, on first connect, it does seem to correctly store a pair for the server
in general; that is, news://username@host/#username and
news://username@host/#password.

The problem may be, then, that Mail/News is failing to detect this stored pair
and seeking to authenticate individual newsgroups.

What do you think?

Comment 3

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Greg, yes.  Also, see bug 108376.

Seth knows what's going on here, and will fix it when he has allotted time. 
(this bug is _so_ annoying).

Comment 4

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verified dup.