593701 - Master password must now be entered several times.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 560793

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Ruud H.G. van Tol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

After updating I now have to enter the master password several times (probably once for each account).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just restart, and it will ask them all again.


Expected Results:  
Only ask the master password once.

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Are you using newsgroups or RSS? I think there's a bug for that case...

Comment 2

[notwhatucallanatural]

I also have this problem. Every time I start Thunderbird I have to enter my master password twice (two dialogs pop up simultaneously). 

One appears to be for email, the other for (google) calendars (I surmise this because calendars don't work but email does if password is only entered once).

Reproducible and expected results: As first post above.

Comment 3

[notwhatucallanatural]

Forgot to say, I'm using Windows XP and Thunderbird 3.1.2

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> One appears to be for email, the other for (google) calendars (I surmise this
> because calendars don't work but email does if password is only entered once).

That's bug 534462

Comment 5

[Daniel AJ Sokolov]

I have the same problem on Thunderbird 3.1.5 on an Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit system. I do NOT use any calender with Thunderbird. Every time I start Thunderbird, I have to enter the Master Password three times. Very annoying.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I have the same problem on Thunderbird 3.1.5 on an Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit system.
> I do NOT use any calender with Thunderbird. Every time I start Thunderbird, I
> have to enter the Master Password three times. Very annoying.

Do you use newsgroups (that's bug 560793) or some other non-POP3/IMAP item that needs authentication?

Comment 7

[Daniel AJ Sokolov]

Yes, in fact I do use a newsgroup server. I've now deactivated the option to check for new postings on startup and the two extra master password boxes have disappeared. Thank you for pointing out that other bug, it is the right one.

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Ruud can you also answer the question in comment #6 ?

Comment 9

[Tim Magee]

Same thing here after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (from 9.10), which upgraded Thunderbird to 3.1.7 (from 2 point something IIRC).

I don't have any calendar-related stuff going on.
I have: 6xPOP, 1xIMAP, 2xNNTP.

Before I upgraded I also had 5 RSS subs under 'News&Blogs'.  They all seem to have vanished now.  I'll investigate that elsewhere though.

Master password behaviour before the upgrade was: ask once at startup.  This is because my main email account is set to connect immediately.

After upgrade: Asks once at startup, then again some minutes later.  I don't know which account is triggering the ask.  Maybe there's a cheeky way to find that out?

my about:config has:
security.ask_for_password=0
security.password_lifetime=3600

Comment 10

[Tim Magee]

I tried setting different 'download every' times on my accounts.  Values of these server settings:
1 - Check for new messages at startup
2 - Check for new messages every (N) minutes
3 - Automatically download messages
4 - Fetch headers only

for each account are:
POP A: 1=Y 2=Y(10) 3=Y 4=N
POP B: 1=Y 2=Y(11) 3=Y 4=N
POP C: 1=N 2=Y(20) 3=Y 4=N
POP D: 1=N 2=Y(30) 3=N 4=N
POP E: 1=Y 2=Y(12) 3=Y 4=N
POP F: 1=N 2=Y(40) 3=Y 4=Y

News&Blogs: 1=Y 2=N

IMAP:   1=Y 2=Y(5)

NNTP A: 1=N 2=N
NNTP B: 1=N 2=N
(I'm currently not subscribed to any groups on either NNTP server)

The master password is requested once at startup, and the next second it's asked for is 19m30s into the session (measaured using 'date' at the command line and subtracting, so not accurate to the second).  The session is now more than an hour old and I *have not* been prompted a third time.

Apologies for length but from my own experience I know there's no such thing as too much information.

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Given the original reporter has never responded, and most people seem to be having an issue with news, I'm going to mark this as duplicate of bug 560793 which is the one that will fix the news service.

Any other issues not related to news should be filed as separate bugs so we can track them cleanly.