735667 - master password prompt appears twice with FIPS 140 enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Lupin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

I have master password enabled with FIPS 140 on Thunderbird on OS X 10.7.3. 


Actual results:

Since upgrading Thunderbird to version 11, I am prompted twice to enter the master password.


Expected results:

I should have to enter the password just once. This is what was happening prior to Thunderbird 11.

Comment 1

[Lupin]

Disabling FIPS 140 results in having to enter the master password just once, but I would prefer to have FIPS 140 enabled.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is very annoying.

What version did you upgrade from ?

Comment 3

[Lupin]

From 10.0.2

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Lupin from comment #3)
> From 10.0.2

Can you try to find when it regressed using http://www.rumblingedge.com/2009/02/24/howto-find-regression-windows-through-manual-binary-search/ ?

Comment 5

[Lupin]

I am a little bit afraid to go back and forth between versions on my main machine (especially given that what's between 10.0.2 and 11 are alphas and betas) and right now I don't have a spare test machine to try. But if I find another machine, I could try that.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Lupin from comment #5)
> I am a little bit afraid to go back and forth between versions on my main
> machine (especially given that what's between 10.0.2 and 11 are alphas and
> betas) and right now I don't have a spare test machine to try. 

lupin, 
you could backup your profile.
or create a test profile. https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles

Comment 7

[Lupin]

The issue has been resolved, don't remember in which version, but entering the master password works fine as of version 17.0.4.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thanks for the update

Comment 9

[contranym]

I am having this exact problem with TB 17.0.5, Windows 7 64-bit, FIPS enabled. Not an upgrade, but uninstalled a previous (unknown) version of TB from computer months ago, so probably not an entirely fresh install. 

Sorry if this should be a new bug report....

Comment 10

[Lupin]

And now I am having the same issue again with 17.0.7. 
The current beta 23.0b1 is ok.

Comment 11

[Lupin]

The same issue in 17.0.8. Reverting to 23b1 fixes the issue.

Comment 12

[Lupin]

This seems fixed in 24.0.1 (probably in 24.0 too)