85639 - back-end & UI: per-group auth should be off by default

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Aleksey Nogin]

While Netscape 4.x had one username/password pair per news server, Mozilla tried
to have a separate username/password pair per each newsgroup (it does not do
that correctly when reusing connections, but that is a separate issue). While I
can imagine a situation where this would be useful, this behaviour is very
annoying when you accessing a server with lots of groups and a common password
(which I believe to be much more common). 

In short, this bug asks for:
- Add a preference to be able to choose between per-host and per-group
authentication.
- Make per-host a default.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

some of this is covered by bug #36816

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

It is on by default. In fact, per-group auth needs a hidden pref to be enabled.