I must totally disagree with Ron's statement that "> There are much more significant things to be fixed. What is occuring is as reported in the following; > I use "chi.news.speakeasy.net" as my news access to "news.GigaNews.com". My DSL > ISP provider is Speakeasy.net. Speakeasy is having problems with their latest > changes to their news service and I have been getting _many_ authorization > requests from their news server. In investigating the contents of my mozilla > "saved passwords" under "edit/preferences/privacy and security/passwords/manage > stored passwords" I found that if an "auth required" packet is received while I > am in a specific News Group, instead of replying with the News Server > authentication as saved for the current newsserver (chi.news,speakeasy.net), > Mozilla ver 2002100604 responds by requesting I type a new "user name" and > "password" sequence and posts a new username/password pair to my saved password > file. Eventually I have a separate username/password pair recorded for every > news group I am subscribed to. I have sobmitted bug #174487 on this problem and > wonder if anyone else has seen the behavior? > Art Wagner
Ron Hunter wrote: > > Ben Z wrote: > >> R.V. Gronoff said the following on 9/22/2002 2:35 PM: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've subscribed to a news server, but when I click on some newsgroups >>> a window pops up asking me my login and password again and again. >>> Why does it have to be so shitty ? I entered my log and pwd when I >>> dlded the ngs list ! This is definitely a bug that should be patched >>> in the near future - it's actually the only annoyance that makes me >>> regret Outlook Express ! >>> >> >> I had a similar experience. It seemed that I was being asked to >> reenter userid and password over and over. A check of the password >> manager showed an individual entry for many of the newsgroups that I >> subscribed to. Once I had entered the id/password combination for >> each newsgroup the requests stopped. In the last two weeks no new >> requests. >> >> Seems the password manager needs an entry for each newsgroup instead >> of a single pair for the entire new server. >> >> --Ben >> > That is correct, and while it is probably NOT the optimal approach, it > does allow a consistent process, and is only a problem during initial > setup of a newsgroup. As long as the user remembers to check the box to > tell NS/Moz to remember the id/password. > There are much more significant things to be fixed. >
