On 2/26/21 1:13 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 26/02/2021 21.33, Doug McGarrett wrote:> On 2/26/21 6:07 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 26/02/2021 08.17, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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
On 25/02/2021 16.23, Lew Wolfgang wrote: protecting 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 Impossible.
It's obviously not impossible. The first time I rebooted the machine after changing the master password in Thunderbird, I could not boot the machine with my old boot password. I then tried the Thunderbird master password and the machine booted. I don't know how this works, all I know is what happened. Impossible. You must have done something else.
I agree with Carlos. The Thunderbird master password has nothing to do with the grub boot password. You can have a boot password without Thunderbird even being installed. But I'm puzzled, Doug. If you don't like Thunderbird passwords, why do you have a boot password? They are optional after all. Regards, Lew