264424 - old password used after change password logic is executed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Paul Elia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

After executing change password logic for a password protected web resource,
Firefox is not aware of this event and will persistently attempt to use the
previously cached credentials indefinitely.  It does not listen to the web
server's feedback to enter new credentials and then present the user with such
an opportunity.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. You'll need access to a web resource that is password protected by the web
server.  Sorry, I can't share the one I use as it is on an intranet.  We use
Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0, Windows Integrated security only, and the HTR
to ASP patches involving ISM2ASP.EXE and IISADMINPWD.
2.  We set the windows password to require a change on next login.
3.  We then access the protected URL.  IIS challenges us for credentials.
4.  IIS then redirects us to a change password form.  Upon successfully changing
the password it then redirects us to a success page with a link to the original
password protected URL.
5.  Click on the URL, or manually try to go to that protected URL again in
another tab or in the same window, doesn't matter.  Firefox will then enter an
infinite loop in dealing with credentials and will never give the user a chance
to change the password.

Actual Results:  
Infinite loop, new page did not load.

Expected Results:  
Upon receiving notification from the web server that the automatically presented
credentials are no good, regardless of whether they were previously good in that
session, give the user a chance to supply new credentials.

Work around:  Close all Firefox windows and go back to the protected URL after
changing your password.  Use the new password.  All will work as expected.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.