Asa Dotzler wrote:
> Ben Clinger wrote:
>
>
>>Pristle wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>The link,
>>>
>>>http://home.netscape.com/communicator/v4.5/passwords/doit.html
>>>
>>>was once the location to enable or disable profile passwords on a shared
>>>machine. It is no more. Anyone know where this feature can be
>>>enabled/disabled now? I am keen to re-enable the option on a new install
>>>for both 4.7x and also 6.1
>>>
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Well, the profile password feature of the 4x series is at
>>http://home.netscape.com/browsers/4/passwords
>>
>>The profile password feature will not be implimented in the 6x series
>>due to an engineering decision <?> that the password feature provided
>>little if any real security and therefore was not necessary, blah, blah.
>>
>
>
> um, no.
>
>
>
>>A bunch of us have asked for it <yep> and occasionally repeat the
>>request.
>>
>
>
> and some people actually stepped up with a patch <yep> and then a few
> additional patches.
>
> For me, it's not a matter of real security, 'cause with Windoz,
>
>>it's a matter of opening up Explorer and just going from there. It keeps
>>the kids from changing my settings so they can play their on-line games.
>>It keeps me from having to delete unwanted bookmarks, et cetera. So to
>>answer your question, with 6x, it ain't gonna happen.
>>
>
>
> I doubt that you really know what is and isn't planned in Netscape
> releases. Please don't state your guesses as fact to new people coming
> into these channels looking for help.
>
> You could instead point this guy to the bug
> <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489> that has the Mozilla
> implementation of this feature and explain to him that developers have
> been working on it and that it is very nearly completed and that it has
> a decent chance of becoming an option for vendors of Mozilla-based
> browsers sometime soon and that it will probably be available for
> testing as an XPInstall in the next few days if all goes well.
>
> I won't use this feature and I don't think that vendors of Mozilla-based
> products should distribute this feature but that's the beauty of open
> source, if someone has an itch the code is avialble and they can scratch
> it.
>
> --Asa
>
>
Well, from the Netscape 6 newsgroups, what I just stated was and has
been stated many times by people "in the know," i.e., the Champions. So,
if you have any input, then fine. As for bugs or requests, as stated
before, they have been made and the response given to me was that it was
an OS issue, and that due to Windows lack of security, no work was going
to be done on it. Also, what's wrong with what I said? As for knowing
or not knowing, sure I do not know - but again, from what I have been
told, unless something changes, it is not going to happen in the
foreseeable future. Thanks for your response and aloha. Ben
