Closed Bug 1780683 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Dismissing primary (master) password dialog at startup time should quit Thunderbird

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Security
Version:
Thunderbird 103
Platform:
Desktop
macOS
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(thunderbird_esr102 affected, thunderbird102 affected, thunderbird103 affected, thunderbird104 affected)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1566458
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
thunderbird_esr102 --- affected
thunderbird102 --- affected
thunderbird103 --- affected
thunderbird104 --- affected

People

(Reporter: alberts, Unassigned)

References

Details

With security.prompt_for_master_password_on_startup set to true TB shows the PP prompt before opening the main window.
When I dismissed that PP dialog via the red (x) I expected TB to simply close and not the main window with a new PP prompt to open instead.

Digging around I have found:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318697#c58 which points to mail.password_protect_local_cache. It doesn't do quite what I expected above, but has a somewhat similar effect (which I would have enabled years ago, if I would have known about it).

Even with having mail.password_protect_local_cache now discovered I think closing TB when the PP prompt at startup time gets dismissed (e.g. by someone else on your computer) is a fair assumption.

Summary: Dismissing primary (master) password dialog at startup time should quite Thunderbird → Dismissing primary (master) password dialog at startup time should quit Thunderbird

AIUI, it's supposed to let you in. When you're in, there's possibilities to remove the use of primary password, whereby you'll loose your passwords, but retain data. If you're completely locked out, a normal user can't retain the data.

This bug is a duplicate of bug 1566458 ?

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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