298437 - Password Manager's "show passwords' button logs out the internal key slot, forcing another master passwor request

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 383229

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Stefan Geisseler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

cached master password get lost under tools > options > privacy > passwords with
"view saved passwords" => "show passwords" => "cancel"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set a master password if not done yet
2. go to: Tools > Options > Privacy > Passwords
3. click: "view saved passwords", enter master password, click then "show passwords"

Actual Results:  
cached master password is lost

Expected Results:  
should stay cached if we click "cancel" and not "ok" on "show passwords"

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Stefan Geisseler]

Sorry, steps to reproduce above are a little bit unclear/incomplete
Here again:

1. set a master password if not done yet
2. go to: Tools > Options > Privacy > Passwords
3. click: "View Saved Passwords", enter your Master Password if not done on a
webpage earlier, and then click "Show Passwords"
4. click "cancel" (don't enter a password here)
5. close Password Manager
6. click on "View Saved Passwords" again or visit a Master-Password protected page

Actual Results:
Master Password isn't cached anymore (we have to re-enter it again)

Expected Results:
Master Password should stay cached if we click "cancel" and not "ok" on "show
passwords"

Can you confirm that?

Comment 3

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The problem is that the "show passwords" button logs the user out of the 
browser's PKCS#11 "internal key slot".  (The Master Password logs the user
into that slot.  The show passwords button logs the user out of that slot.)

The only reason that the user is prompted for the Master Password when he
clicks the "show passwords" button is that he has already been logged out
of that slot.  So, the real bug is that the user is logged out of the slot
when the "show passwords" button is clicked.  

Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Bug 383229 explains the problem in some detail.  So I am marking this bug
as a duplicate of it.