Closed Bug 251612 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Prompt for username and password for news server access does not say which server

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: NNTP
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187406

People

(Reporter: robrwo, Assigned: sspitzer)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

When I connect to news.verizon.net, one prompt asks me for a username, and
another prompt asks me for a password.  None of these prompts tells me which
news server needs a username and password.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Mail/News for first time in a session
2. Click on root branch of account tree for news server
3. Dialog boxes come up that ask for username and password

Actual Results:  
Dialog boxes do not say which server wants this information.

Expected Results:  
Dialog boxes should in some way identify which news server is asking for
username and password.

This could be a potential security hole, since one might be sending the wrong
username/password combo to a different server.  An unscrupulous admin could log
involid logins and try them on a more well-known server.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187406 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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