229544 - password manager "forgets" already entered passwords.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220022

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I manage a few dozen routers, Access Points, and similar apparatus.  All of
these use passwords.  And.. I like to use the password manager to support them.
 Many access points (such as Cisco) have a lot of different pages that the user
can enter and if you have not been to the unit recently,  you can be asked for a
password on any page you might enter if you have not been there recently.  As a
result,  it is my practice to ALWAYS enter the password and click "save".  

Unfortunately,  (not all the time but frequently) I return to a router page whre
I am SURE I previously saved the password and it asks me for the password again.  

Maybe it is the result of some detail of the link name being different,  I
cannot be sure.  What it seems like would work better in this case would be an
option to "USE THIS PASSWORD FOR ALL REQUESTS FOR THIS DOMAIN?"  This way, 
anytime anything in the (say) http://192.165.155.33/*/*/*  domain asked for a
password it would get the same one from the cache.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tim]

I also have been having this same issue.  I am running on WinXP Home Edition and
for a specific site that requests a password, Mozilla seems to foget it.  This
is how I've managed to duplicate the effect:
Running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

1.)  I enter the site that requests the password (the site uses Neomail)
2.)  I allow Mozilla to remember the password
3.)  I log out of my webmail
4.)  I log into another webmail account not associated with the previous and
allow Mozilla to automatically enter my user name and password
5.)  I log out of that account
6.)  I proceed to the first email account mentioned
7.)  Mozilla has "flushed" my user name and password from the password manager
and the site asks me for a user name and password.

I can reproduce this each time.  If need be, I am willing to set up an account
on both servers for an ***OFFICIAL*** Mozilla developer to try out.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

It appears that anytime an http server asks for http basic auth AGAIN,
after it has already asked for and received authentication once,
this causes the password manger to forget the user name and password
that it had previously stored for that server.

I can reproduce this 100% at will.  
I have resorted to changing the permissions on my password file to read-only.
That keeps password manager from deleteing it from the file, but does not
prevent password manager from forgetting the passwords in the process.
So each time password manager forgets my password, I just have to restart the
browser, and it remembers them again.  :)

Comment 5

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220022 ***