Ben Clinger wrote:
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>
>
>>Asa Dotzler wrote:
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>>>Ben Clinger wrote:
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>>>>Asa Dotzler wrote:
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>>>>>Ben Clinger wrote:
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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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>>A bunch of us have asked for it <yep> and occasionally repeat the
>>>>>>request.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>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
>
>
Just please understand that I get a little "jittery" when you post
"Champions" are posting things in the groups cuz we're "in the know"
...... :-D
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI
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