185427 - Unable to access more than one newsgroup on a server that requires different login for each group

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Beverly Howard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Been using Mozilla news reader for several months with no problems, but needed
to subsribe to a password protectd news server (privatenews.microsoft.com) Added
and used a single group with no issues for about two months, but when I
attempted to add a second group on the same server with a different id/password,
password manager began requiring full login for every action on the server.

Investigation showed that when a group is subscribed to with id and password,
password manager creates four entries, two for the server, and two for the group
with the same information.

Problem begins with the addition of another group as that process appears to add
two entries for the new group with the new information and that it changes the
previous server entry information.

Password manager does not allow any edit of this information.

If "server" entries are deleted, multiple groups can be added and read, but
response transmissions fail.  Response submissions can then be "edited as new"
from the "Sent" folder, the new "Reply to" address removed and the re-send will
succeed.

Think that this could be solved by allowing the user to add a new "News Account"
but when that is attempted, it is refused by Mozilla because the server already
exists in the previous account.

Beverly Howard


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Subscribe to more than one newsgroup on the same server where each group
requires a different userid/password login

2. Get, Read and Respond to postings

Actual Results:  
manal reentry of login/password required

Expected Results:  
allowed each group to have it's own id/password login and use that password to
send responses rather than storing a single entry for the server

Comment 1

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96896 ***

Comment 2

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

verified dup

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Reopening, it is not a dupe of bug 96896, but it may be a dupe of something else (and I'm able to confirm it is still a bug in my password manager work).

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Attachment: Test for per-group password [checked-in]

This feature has been around for ages, but you have to flip a hidden pref. What it really needs is just some UI.

In the meantime, here is a test that makes sure I don't regress this functionality (applies on top of the unify-news-auth code patch).

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Comment on attachment 592549 [details] [diff] [review]
Test for per-group password [checked-in]

This patch was checked in by <http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/pushloghtml?changeset=9d43b85434a1>.

The bug will remain open until UI is added, though.