274653 - Password Manager won't remember null passwords

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73931

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Marc Branchaud]

I can replicate this with both

   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
   Thunderbird 1.0 (20041206) on Windows 2000

I'm seeing this when trying to address mail, but I suspect it's true in other
situations (so I didn't open this bug specifically against Thunderbird or the
Address Book).

I'm using an LDAP server as an address book, and that server requires whacky
client authentication but with a NULL (ie. empty) password.  Specifically, in
the directory server properties I have to enter a Bind DN, but the server only
accepts NULL passwords.

When I compose mail and start typing somebody's email address, Mozilla tries to
contact the LDAP server to autocomplete the address.  At that point the password
dialog pops up.  If I just click OK, without entering a password, Mozilla can
access the LDAP server perfectly.  But if I select "Use Password Manager to
remember this password" before hitting OK, I still get re-prompted for the
password the next time I try to address a new mail message.

Bottom line: Password Manager should be able to remember empty passwords.

(Apologies if this is a dupe -- I searched for any Password Manager or
Thunderbird bugs with "empty" "null" or "blank" in the summary.)

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of Bug 73931. 

> Bug 209841 : Mail/News does not remember empty password (DUP of Bug 73931) 
> Bug  73931 : Won't remember zero-length passwords

Since Mozilla and Thunderbird share components, and since Product/Component
structure has been changed recently, searching for at least above 4 Products is
required when Mailer related problem. 
Bug 209841 was found by searching Summary { (contains "password") AND (contains
"null" OR "empty") } for Product=Mozilla Suite OR Thunderbird OR Core OR Toolkit, 
then Bug 73931 was found.
Searching for DUP bugs is also required because problem description depends on
bug reporter.

By the way, you say "null", 209841 say "empty", and 73931 say "zero-length"...
Bugzilla needs AI...



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73931 ***