329610 - Add ability to change multiple passwords at once

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137196

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[rhd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 MultiZilla/1.8.1.1c SeaMonkey/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 MultiZilla/1.8.1.1c SeaMonkey/1.0

Internal to my company we have several single sign-on systems.  Therefore I have the same login for many sites, and a large subset of those reference the same LDAP object.  When I use a recognizable "change password" web page, the password manager pops up a dialog asking which account I'm changing.  It shows every site for which the login and old password match, and automatically takes care of updating the stored password for the one I choose.  Then I have to open the password manager UI, delete my accounts for the others, and go log into them manually while saving my new password.

I would like to be able to Ctrl-click multiple entries on that dialog and change the stored password for all the sites that I know use the same back-end lookup.  Or have a third button to change all of them, which would always be the right choice for me because I don't use the same password on the different single sign-on systems, so the list that pops up is always exactly the right set to update.  People that do re-use passwords on unrelated sites would need the ability to pick and choose the right ones.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up multiple sites using form authentication against one LDAP server.  Set up an account on the LDAP server.  Set up a password change page that will be recognized as such.
2. Log into the sites and save your password on each.
3. Go to the password change page and change your password.  You can pick one site to update in the Password Manager.
4. Go to the site you chose.  The correct password is entered.
5. Go to one of the other sites.

Actual Results:  
The old, incorrect password is filled in on all sites except the one chosen to be updated.

Expected Results:  
The code that recognizes a password change page and pops up a dialog to select which stored password to update should allow multiple selections.

I have been through this several times with different versions of Mozilla and now Seamonkey 1.0.  I currently use Multizilla but it did not change the behavior; I only started using it last month.  I have used different themes over the period I have experienced this inconvenience.  I've used different versions of Windows and have previously reproduced the deficiency on Linux/SPARC.  I can currently test on FreeBSD/i386 if required.