User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Been using Mozilla news reader for several months with no problems, but needed to subsribe to a password protectd news server (privatenews.microsoft.com) Added and used a single group with no issues for about two months, but when I attempted to add a second group on the same server with a different id/password, password manager began requiring full login for every action on the server. Investigation showed that when a group is subscribed to with id and password, password manager creates four entries, two for the server, and two for the group with the same information. Problem begins with the addition of another group as that process appears to add two entries for the new group with the new information and that it changes the previous server entry information. Password manager does not allow any edit of this information. If "server" entries are deleted, multiple groups can be added and read, but response transmissions fail. Response submissions can then be "edited as new" from the "Sent" folder, the new "Reply to" address removed and the re-send will succeed. Think that this could be solved by allowing the user to add a new "News Account" but when that is attempted, it is refused by Mozilla because the server already exists in the previous account. Beverly Howard Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Subscribe to more than one newsgroup on the same server where each group requires a different userid/password login 2. Get, Read and Respond to postings Actual Results: manal reentry of login/password required Expected Results: allowed each group to have it's own id/password login and use that password to send responses rather than storing a single entry for the server

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96896 ***

verified dup

Reopening, it is not a dupe of bug 96896, but it may be a dupe of something else (and I'm able to confirm it is still a bug in my password manager work).

This feature has been around for ages, but you have to flip a hidden pref. What it really needs is just some UI. In the meantime, here is a test that makes sure I don't regress this functionality (applies on top of the unify-news-auth code patch).

Comment on attachment 592549 [details] [diff] [review] Test for per-group password [checked-in] This patch was checked in by <http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/pushloghtml?changeset=9d43b85434a1>. The bug will remain open until UI is added, though.