539183 - nsILoginManager fails in enterprise autoadmin with Thunderbird >=3.0

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Chetan Chauhan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

I use autoadmin.global_config_url to set a http page from where my thunderbird client downloads settings.

For thunderbird 2.x i use nsIPasswordManager in the config script which works great and i am able to save passwords for accounts auto-created.
After Thunderbird 3.0 i am supposed to use -

var passwordManager = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/login-manager;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsILoginManager);


However thunderbird javascript security is probably blocking this since I get an error but I am able to create other XPCOM components like version-comparator and prompts without any problem in the autoadmin script.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use or create nsILoginManager object any where in autoadmin script . Doesn't matter even if the function is declared in greprefs , or in the config file or directly in the global_config_url web page.
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Actual Results:  
Netscape.cfg/AutoConfig failed. Please contact your system administrator. 
 Error: changePass -  failed: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570015 (NS_ERROR_XPC_CI_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.createInstance]"  nsresult: "0x80570015 (NS_ERROR_XPC_CI_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: <unknown filename> :: changePass :: line 35"  data: no]

Expected Results:  
Should be able to create nsILoginManager to save passwords using autoadmin script.

Would like if this bug is fixed or a workaround given. Have over 300 PC's using autoadmin and thier customized global_config_url

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

nsIPasswordManager does not exist anymore (password handling was reworked a lot for tb3)

Comment 2

[Chetan Chauhan]

Actually I have subsequently found out that for some unknown reason nsiLoginManager cannot be created within a javascript function . I have to create the nsiLoginManager in the main javascript code and then i can use the object.

If i create nsiLoginManager object within a function without first creating it in the main javascript body it gives the error I posted above.