How Are You on Profile Passwords

How are you on Profile passwords?

Not been able to manipulate .js files to require
profile passwords either through 1-migrating 4.79
profiles into 7.02; 2-adding/manipulating lines
in user's prefs or lipref.js files; or 3- exploding browser.xpi--adding lines to all-ns.js--recompressing and overwriting old browser.xpi then running or rerunning setup. No luck either in trying to get it to implement a line requiring the email server login password before user can see any mail--on server or in local boxes. Would appreciate any help I can get.

 

Welcome to the Forum, GBM!

Hi GBM,

I started a new thread for you, as I feared your problem would get lost in the thread where you originally posted.

I have no experience with a LAN, Windows NT, or home networking. Shall I assume then, that you have tried deselecting "Remember Password" in the Password Manager, and that it has no effect on your workstations? The passwords are kept in the:
C:\Winnt\Profiles\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\profilename\xxxxxxxx.slt\randomnumber.s file.

Any further information you can give us, i.e., OS, etc. would make searching for a solution much easier.

Thanks!

Ramona

 

not applicable in this situation. That solution
only forces user to enter their mail server password. I am talking about a password needed to
open a profile, even if there is only one. We have had in in place since 4.76. No profile password-no Navigator or Messenger at all-no see messages in local mailboxes. That's what I want to duplicate in 7.x. Thanks for the reply, though. Someone knows the answer.

 

I see you are trying to dupllicate the Communicator profile password feature in NS7.xx .....maybe the following NG post will shed some light on the issue.

==========copy/pasted from groups.google search========
From: Chris I (usenet@grecomobilias.com)
Subject: Re: user profile passwords
Newsgroups: netscape.public.general
Date: 2003-06-24 17:32:47 PST

Hal spoke thusly:
> DougG <doug4179@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<3EF870AB.3000007@attbi.com>...
>>Hal wrote:
>>
>>>In reference to "profiles" thread below: So, after 4.x there are no
>>>longer available "local user profile passwords "?
>>
>>Netscape 6/7 doesn't have "local user profile passwords." I guess the
>>designers felt that protecting profiles was best left to the operating
>>system.
>>
>>Even with "local user profile passwords," a knowledgeable 4.x user can
>>read a password protected profile's mail.
>
> Maybe, but not an 8 year old. At least not yet...

Netscape 6/7 is designed to have a separate profile registry for each OS user. That means that you can set up as many profiles as you want in your OS profile, and none of them will show up in the profile manager,
when a different user has logged on.

--
solon@rogers.com
http://members.rogers.com/solon/Netscape.html

=============end copy/paste============

 

Sounds like I cannot get what I want, even manipulating the .js files. Thanks for the info.
Now we have to figure out how to out-design the
designers.

 

If you still want to find a way to enable user profile passwords in Netscape7, similar to those found in Netscape Communicator, you could try one of the development links at http://members.rogers.com/solon/Netscape.html such as http://devedge.netscape.com/ or the newsgroups.

P.S. more here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489