Jay Garcia wrote:
> Asa Dotzler wrote:
>
>
>>Ben Clinger wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Asa Dotzler wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>Ben Clinger wrote:
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>>>>
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>>>>>Pristle wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>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, I appreciate your above statement; however, from all of the posts
in the NG about this topic, unless I skipped over it (good chance of
that), there has been little if anything stated about progress in this
area. I have password profiles enabled on all machines running 4.78 and
only the oldest kid uses it, I used it for about 2 weeks and deleted my
password. It is no big deal, though something that does come in handy.
Also, thanks for the great job you and the others in both NGs are doing. Ben
