79759 - unable to change my personal security password

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

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I'm unable to change my personal security password

using build 2001050904, win98

I tried "Task | Privacy and Security | Password Manager | Change Personal
Security Password ..."

but I got an alert "Unable to change the password that protects your sensitive
information."

Comment 1

[Ryan T. Sammartino]

I'd just like to add a "me too", with some additional info:

- Mozilla 0.9, built from mozilla-0.9-1mdk.src.rpm, which can be found
at ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS

- Under Mozilla 0.8.1, I had it set up to prompt me for a password before it
would fill in userid/password text boxes on any web site. Now in 0.9 it doesn't
do that.. it just fills them in.

- Selecting Tasks | Privacy and Security | Personal Security Manager does
nothing.

- Task | Privacy and Security | Password Manager | Change Personal Security
Password... results in "Unable to change the password that protects your
sensitive information"

- Task | Privacy and Security | Password Manager | Encrypt Sensitive Information
results in "Unable to convert stored data."

I have even tried wiping out my old profile and starting from scratch, to no
avail.

Oh, and BTW, Bugzilla told me I was using a nightly build from 14/05/2001 to
submit the bug, which can cause database corruption, but that isn't true... I'm
using Mozilla 0.9

Comment 2

[Stephen P. Morse]

From these symptoms it sounds like you don't have psm installed.  If you are 
doing your own builds, you need to set an environment variable that causes psm2 
to get built.

This is working fine for me so I'll assume that this was your error.  If 
I'm wrong, then reopen and give detailed steps for reproducing (starting from a 
fresh profile).

Comment 3

[doctor__j]

Forgive my stupidity on installing PSM.  Are those Win32 nightly builds got PSM 
installed / bundled / activated?  Do I need to modify prefs.js to use PSM??

Thanks for the attention.

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

I don't know whether or not then nightly builds have psm.  But you can determine 
if you have it by trying to visit an https website.  If you can get there 
successfully, then you have psm.

Comment 5

[Chad Austin]

tested and verified