Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
Zanqeutil wrote:
David H. Durgee schreef:
I am seeing some strange behavior with 2.5 and news groups. Despite
having previously saved the user and password for a server that requires
it I keep getting prompted for the password and sometimes the username
as well. When I open the password manager I see the username and
password recorded for the web site (news.individual.net), but most often
I do not see entries for the news server. Sometimes shutting down
SeaMonkey 2.5 will clear this up, sometimes not.
How can this be fixed?
Dave
I have had the same problems with Seamonkey 2.5 and some newsservers.
I keep getting prompted for the password and the username.
A News (NNTP) error occured: Authentication failed -
Incorrect username/password
When I try again, multiple times
Sometime it sticks and entries can be found in the password manager,
sometimes
it does not work. Never had this with older Seamonkey versions. I have
seen it
before in the old Mozilla Suite.
Seamonkey 2.5 is based on Thunderbird 8 (as far as I know),
Seems to ba a bug. There is a threat about the same problem in the
Thunderbird
newsgroup:
Newsgroup username/password problems 16-11-2011
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/ba37101d15a5e9f0/6505926bc5f49203?show_docid=6505926bc5f49203
Zanqeutil
I am just idly wondering if this is a timing problem.
I.e. SM replies too quickly to username/password from the server,
and the server doesn't get the message.
Perhaps the connection and authentication protocol/conversation
between SM and the server should be paced at a human interaction
speed with few milliseconds of delays between the back and forth
messages.
Perhaps that is part of it, but I think there is more to it. Things are
working now after closing out and restarting. I have the password
manager open to the news.individual.net and it shows two entries for the
news server, one with the username and one with the password in addition
to a single entry for userid/password on the web site. When the problem
is occurring the two news server entries disappear from the password
manager. Perhaps they are being removed after an authentication failure
from the server. Perhaps they are being removed for some reason and
causing the authentication failure.
Dave
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