On 2/25/21 2:44 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2/24/21 10:52 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I'm not understanding this--"all" my passwords. There is only one password to receive or send email, altho I have been pestered to reenter the email password almost every time I want to send an email. This is recent behavior, and it's what brought on this thread. Or is it actually trying to be a wallet for the system? And if it is, does that mean I have to leave email open all the time in order to provide a password on Firefox, for example? Please explain. BLUF: There are two passwords for each email account.
As used now, sending and receiving email are two separate and independent processes. Each process requires its own username and password. Thunderbird manages these two username/password pairs for each account you may have. It doesn't know about Chrome, Firefox, or your Linux login.
If you tell Thunderbird to remember your sending and receiving passwords, and not use a master Thunderbird password, you will never be bothered by a mail-related password again. I don't feel safe about Thunderbird storing passwords and not protecting
On 25/02/2021 16.23, Lew Wolfgang wrote: them, so that anybody that gains access to the disk can read all the stored passwords. Even if you live alone and there is a key to the house. You do not know if one day in the next five years you will have a visitor, a guest, a partner, a worker, a thief, a nurse... or a clever dog. I put a password into Thunderbird's "Use a master password" and it does keep T/B from bugging me all the time for a repeat, BUT
It changed my boot password! But not my root password, which was the same as my boot p/w. I don't want to get locked out of the system, but what command can I use to put the boot password back to what it was? Or should I change the Thunderbird p/w to my original boot p/w? That might not be too good, since it is very simple and short. (NOT doug!) --doug