268716 - password manager fails to save vBulletin password

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 257781

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Aaron Slunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

vBulletin is a widely used message board system. However, Firefox does not store
the passwords for login correctly.

Go to the URL linked to, and try to login with any username and pass: the
password manager will come up as expected. If you hit yes, you'll take notice
that once you try logging in again, the password does NOT appear.

So, after you run into this problem, open signons.txt found in the firefox
profile. If you go to vbulletin.com/forum in the file, you'll see the data was
stored as "vb_login_username" and "vb_login_password", which is completely
different from all other sites stored in the file.

If you look in your password manager (tools>options>privacy>saved password) and
you choose to view the password, only the username is displayed: the password
section is blank.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the URL, and attempt to login, allowing password manager to save the
password.
2.After logging in, or attempting, logout if necessary, and attempt logging in
with the same username. The password will not appear.
3.

Actual Results:  
Passwords were not saved properly.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should properly store the passwords.

Comment 1

[Hodor!]

Confirmed with FireFox 1.0 under Windows 2000. The signons.txt file has a hashed
entry for a password. But viewing the passwords in the Password Manager shows
only a blank field.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257781 ***