GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 132861
no way to remove a "never save passwords for this site" decision
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 0) go to some site to which you've never been before and which has a login form 1) type username + password 2) submit 3) Say "Never for this site" when asked if you want to have the login remembered 4) Open the pdm Actual results: No way to remove the decision to never save the login for this site. Expected results: Some way to reconsider my decision.
Just for the sake of asking, Do we really need "never for this site". It seems like a total edge case to me. Here are some use cases to consider (pseudo-personaish) 1. Person 1: uses their personal laptop always saves passwords since he's the only one who uses his computer anyway. 2. Person 2: Goes to person 1's house wants to check his webmail. Since she's using her friend's computer she obviously chooses not to save her password. 3. Person 3: Admin for a large installation of kiosk internet consoles. Wants to prevent any user passwords from ever being saved for security reasons. Well Person 1 gets the password dialog and hits "Save Password". Person 2 selects "Don't Save Password" and Person 3 wants an admin preference to disable password saving altogether. Now tell me who's the user that is going to chooser to "Never save for this site"? Are a large number of users ever going to use this. How large is the minortiy user base that may use this? If we eliminate the option we reduce the amount of potential complex ui that will be needed to facillitate undoing the decision (which is a plus). I guess this button reminds me slightly of the "Don't ask me again" check box.
The dialogue comes from mozilla, I don't think we can do anything about it, short of completely disabling password saving.
/me curses mozilla again, and again and again...
I agree with Dave that the "Never for this site" is overkill - i think people just use it as a kind of "I don't care about this dialog, i want to get rid of it" button. A way to disable password saving might be good though, or do you think that should just be a lockdown key (or whatever) for admins? Also, is this something that we could use keychain (or whatever it's called) for instead of mozilla? (and thus be able to control the ui)
Yes, when we switch to gnome-keyring we have control over the ui. This bug is only for gnome 2.6; if we don't want to do anything about it for 2.6, we can just close it.
Yeah I think we should close this, we are going gnome-keyring anyway.
Dup'ing against the "use gnome-keyring" bug then. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130336 ***