On 11/11/2017 9:38 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> I use the Password Manager that is inherent in SeaMonkey. Some of >> the third-party applications store the user's passwords in the cloud, >> which I feel is quite risky. Others, I am just not sure of their >> integrity and security. Since I have to trust SeaMonkey to handle >> logins with both security and integrity, I must then trust SeaMonkey >> to store my passwords. > > Doesn't really address the OP's question. He's concerned by several > posts we've seen here about SM forgetting passwords after recent > upgrades. I, too, would be greatly inconvenienced if SM forgot all those > nuisance logins that I entrust to it. > >> As much as I trust SeaMonkey, I still use a lengthy pass-phrase (not >> merely a password) as my master password. I also periodically >> change the individual passwords for the Web sites of my financial >> accounts and certain other critical Web sites. > > As a policy, I don't save logins and passwords for financial > institutions in SM or anywhere else my computer. However, in a separate > file with a nonobvious name and location, I do save fragments or clues > to those logins and passwords along with a slew of other unrelated data. > > So for a simple example (this isn't a real case), for one of my banks I > may save the fragment "Yankees," which reminds me to add the fragment > "rule!!" when I enter it in the website. For another example (again, not > a real case), I may save "hIOdnV7QT9A_aJvHnZ2dnUU7" (I grabbed this just > now from your message id) and remember that the login is "hIOdnV7QT9A" > (the first part) and the password is "_aJvHnZ2dnUU7" (the second part). > Nothing in the file mentions the institutions or their websites, so it's > not obvious to anyone else which parts of the mass of data go with what. > And since what is there is incomplete (the rest being saved in wetware), > cracking it won't help without the other part. > > There are many ways of saving useful reminders (not complete logins or > passwords) without assuming unreasonable risks. >
I have never seen SeaMonkey forget a saved password. I have indeed seen this problem with Thunderbird. (I do not use SeaMonkey's mail-news capability.) However, I think the problem in Thunderbird was fixed several versions ago. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Am I the only one who noticed the following? * President Trump issued executive orders that increase health-care costs. * The Republicans in Congress propose to eliminate itemized deductions for health-care costs. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
