On 4/25/10 12:56 PM, John wrote:
> On April 24, 2009, I opened a big can of worms by asking in this
> newsgroup if it was possible to get the Password Manager to offer to
> save passwords for more https:// sites.
>
> I was told to try putting the following into the user.js file for my
> profile to significantly expand the scope of the Password Manager:
> user_pref("wallet.crypto", true);
> user_pref("wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride", true);
>
> I did this and it worked to some extent. However, it also required me to
> specify a Master Password, which I did not have up until that time.
> After that, it kept pestering me for my Master Password. I could never
> get it to work to my satisfaction, so I removed the two lines from my
> user.js file. After that, I wasn't being asked for my Master Password
> anymore. (This was with v1.1.1x, whatever was the latest at that time).
>
> All was fine until I decided to give SeaMonkey v2.04 a try. It installed
> OK and successfully imported my old profile. It also started pestering
> me for my Master Password again. It appeared that if I wanted to stay
> with v2.04 without the need to use a Master Password, I would have to
> reset it which would cause all my stored passwords to be lost. I would
> have to manually re-enter all of them, not a trivial task when you have
> over a hundred. At this point I have gone back to using SeaMonkey v1.1.19.
>
> I think there ought to be a way to get rid of the Master Password
> without losing all the stored passwords. I fully understand the security
> issue involved, and that you can't allow someone to remove the Master
> Password if they don't know what it is without deleting the stored
> passwords. But I *DO* know my Master Password. Why can't there be a
> function which will allow one to remove the Master Password without
> deleting the stored password database after first entering the Master
> Password to prove they know it?
>
> John
With SeaMonkey 2.x, the "wallet" preference variables are ignored; they
are no longer used. Instead, see
<http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-remember-passwords/> for a workaround.
See also bug #425145 at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425145> for a request to
provide the capability without a workaround.
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