Asa Dotzler wrote:
> Ben Clinger wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> The champions may be "in the know" for a lot of 4.x stuff but you no
> longer need them to tell you what the developers are up to since it's
> all public in Bugzilla. I appreciate the champions and I'm happy to see
> them getting up to speed with the Mozilla project but they are no more
> 'in the know' than anyone that's been reading these mozilla developer
> newsgroups and reading in Bugzilla. I pointed you to the bug (completely
> and totally publically visible) that has the actual developer
> discussions about this specific issue. It doesn't get any more first
> hand than that. I'll let you decide which one to believe and repeat to
> others.
>
> --Asa
>
And IF we are "in the know", we don't make it "known" in the groups
unless it is already published in Mozilla.org, Bugzilla or any related
PUBLIC group.
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI
UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
