263614 - Add UI for newsgroup-specific passwords

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[E. S. Fábián]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

email.sparklist.com hosts (using Lyrix) multiple newsgroups, each requiring
membership to post (but not to read). TB 0.8 (20040913) permits only a single
username/password for the server, not to individual newsgroups.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an account on the news server, including username and password
matching one of the newsgroups.
2. Attempt to post to another newsgroup on the same server requiring different
username or password.
Actual Results:  
Posting is refused.

Expected Results:  
Allow multiple accounts to the same server, permitting each account to have its
own username and password, account name, and associated subscriptions.

Multiple accounts to a single server also allow creating separate folders for
related newsgroup subscriptions, with the folder name (as specified via tha
"Account Name" field) describing the subscription group, not the server. This is
very useful feature in Outlook Express.

Comment 1

[John]

This issue is definately a confirmed issue*, under v1.0.2. The server dialog
under the Acoout Manager NEEDS to include a username/password section!!! I have
found the lack of this feature a major drawback, and it is essentially the only
feature currently that forces me to still use OE, which I despise. OE has no
problem with multiple accounts under the same server being created, because it
can use the username/password to differentiate, see example below.

When I try to create two accounts in TB with the same name, it gives me an
Alert: "An account with that user name and server name already exists. Please
enter a different user name and/or server name." Unfortunately, since there is
no place to enter the username and password anywhere in the dialog box, I have
no way to change the user name for this account. 

* See similar/related bugs/chamge requests:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275433,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286700, and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293106.

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In OE username/password access is set under the Server tab:

Server Information---------------------------
Server name: privatenews.bentley.com

|x| The server requires me to log on
Account name: buildingauc
Password: ****************
|x| Remember password
| | Log on using Secure Password Authentication

Please advise, ASAP, thank you,

John

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[John]

(In reply to comment #2)

Scott,

Hello, I believe you are assigned to this particular defect. I got the message
below recently. I have since downloaded the 1.5 beta, but it still does not
appear to have remedied this situation.

Is there any additional information I can provide that will assist in getting
this issue resolved? This a definate need I have to fully utilize Thunderbird
and eliminate any reliance on Microsoft Outlook Express.

Please advise,

John

Comment 4

[Josh D S Davis]

I have the same problem in the RSS aggregator.
Basically, it seems to look up the hostname only, and if it finds a hit, it uses that.
During subscription creation, there is no provision to enter login credentials.
As such, There is no provision to have multiple accounts on the same hostname.

To reproduce it, all you have to do is set up 2 dummy RSS files and have basic auth require different login credentials for both.
Until 2 days ago, you could use something like livejournal's RSS feeds, but they're all on unique hostnames now.

This may be an RFE rather than a bug.
Either way, I'd like to see it corrected as well.

NOTE: Version for this bug should be updated to show 1.5?

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Three true comments, each referencing three different requests:

Comment 0 (description): May either be "Make logins per-newsgroup (or subaccount)" or "allow multiple accounts to reference the same server/port." I'd probably be willing to accept patches on either of these topics, but it is not something that I will work on in the near future. See also bug 94962.

Comment 1: You are talking about adding a username/password to the account manager pane, which is not what comment #0 talks about. Find another bug.

Comment 4: RSS != news (NNTP). Find another bug.

Changing information to better reflect bug.

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Comment 0 (description): May either be "Make logins per-newsgroup (or
> subaccount)" or "allow multiple accounts to reference the same server/port."
> I'd probably be willing to accept patches on either of these topics, but it is
> not something that I will work on in the near future. See also bug 94962.

In the time since I wrote this comment, I discovered that this is already possible via a hidden pref <server>.singleSignon;

Therefore, all that this asks for now is to have UI.