540128 - More than one Wordpress installation: FF cannot remember all passwords

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263387

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Yasir Wazir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB6

I have multiple wordpress installations in my site. Main site is wordpress, then there is a news section and blog that also use WP.

For such a long time, I thought FF will solve this issue but it is still there in the latest FF.

The problem is that: for all WP installed within my one site, username is the same. Now, FF cannot seem to remember the password for all WP based sections in my site.

Like, homepage is: http://www.a1newspapers.com/

Lets say FF have saved the username and Pass for admin panel for this site.

But then for this section:

http://www.a1newspapers.com/blog/

When I enter login info, FF does ask to save the info: if I select Yes, then the password for this section will over write the password that FF saved for the main site.

hence, only one password is saved for multiple sections of WP.

Can you solve this issue? Or I am doing something wrong? 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 3

[Yasir Wazir]

I am currently using Firefox 3.6.12 and I am still having this issue:

FF does not remember all the passwords if you have multiple installations of Wordpress in one website.

I will now check in Firefox 3.6.13

Comment 4

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Are you still experiencing this issue with the latest version of Firefox 5? Does the issue occur with the latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 5

[Yasir Wazir]

I am using FF5 and am still facing this issue:

I have multiple Wordpress installations in one domain: now FF does only remember password for One installation. All installations uses the same username that is ADMIN.

Comment 6

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Are they on sub-domains or just different paths? i.e. blog.site.com and blog2.site.com or site.com/blog1 and site.com/blog2

Comment 7

[Yasir Wazir]

All Wordpress installations are in one Main Domain: No subdomains.

Main domain is using Wordpress here:

http://www.a1newspapers.com/

Now another Wordpress installation is here:

http://www.a1newspapers.com/blog/

Just like this, there are other installations too.

Comment 8

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

In researching this I found you can store multiple accounts on the same domain as long as they use a different username. Only 1 combination of site/username is allowed. If you put the blogs on sub-domains the issue would go away.

So...2 choices currently: use different username or move to sub-domains.

Duping to bug 263387 - which is a WONTFIX

Bug 436275 is also similar (and has a patch) - but also was a WONTFIX