Closed Bug 251612 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Prompt for username and password for news server access does not say which server

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187406

People

(Reporter: robrwo, Assigned: sspitzer)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 When I connect to news.verizon.net, one prompt asks me for a username, and another prompt asks me for a password. None of these prompts tells me which news server needs a username and password. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Mail/News for first time in a session 2. Click on root branch of account tree for news server 3. Dialog boxes come up that ask for username and password Actual Results: Dialog boxes do not say which server wants this information. Expected Results: Dialog boxes should in some way identify which news server is asking for username and password. This could be a potential security hole, since one might be sending the wrong username/password combo to a different server. An unscrupulous admin could log involid logins and try them on a more well-known server.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187406 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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