I am configuring thunderbird 2.0.0.14 with a new LDAP address book
that requires user authentication. In testing I see some annoying
behavior. Every time I compose a message, thunderbird asks me for the
password to the LDAP directory. We will roll out this configuration
to a large group of users, so utilize autoconfig (mission control) Is
there a preference setting for caching the password? Thunderbird does
not ask for the user's IMAP or SMTP password every time.

Part of our IT policy is to disable remembering passwords by locking
signon.rememberSignons to false and
pref.privacy.disable_button.view_passwords to true. Setting a master
password is not an option.

Regards,
--Dean

Dean Brundage wrote:
> I am configuring thunderbird 2.0.0.14 with a new LDAP address book
> that requires user authentication. In testing I see some annoying
> behavior. Every time I compose a message, thunderbird asks me for the
> password to the LDAP directory. We will roll out this configuration
> to a large group of users, so utilize autoconfig (mission control) Is
> there a preference setting for caching the password? Thunderbird does
> not ask for the user's IMAP or SMTP password every time.

The problem is Thunderbird currently doesn't cache its LDAP password
across different areas, you may find the preview version (codenamed
"Shredder Alpha 1") better, but you probably don't want to deploy that -
and it hasn't fixed it completely yet.

> Part of our IT policy is to disable remembering passwords by locking
> signon.rememberSignons to false and
> pref.privacy.disable_button.view_passwords to true. Setting a master
> password is not an option.

If you could remember passwords, that would be your best option.
Otherwise I don't think there is another way around this.

Standard8

On Jul 16, 8:47*am, Mark Banner <bugzi...@invalid.standard8.plus.com>
wrote:
> Dean Brundage wrote:
> > I am configuring thunderbird 2.0.0.14 with a new LDAP address book
> > that requires user authentication. *In testing I see some annoying
> > behavior. Every time I compose a message, thunderbird asks me for the
> > password to the LDAP directory. *We will roll out this configuration
> > to a large group of users, so utilize autoconfig (mission control) *Is
> > there a preference setting for caching the password? *Thunderbird does
> > not ask for the user's IMAP or SMTP password every time.
>
> The problem is Thunderbird currently doesn't cache its LDAP password
> across different areas, you may find the preview version (codenamed
> "Shredder Alpha 1") better, but you probably don't want to deploy that -
> and it hasn't fixed it completely yet.

Right. We have a large user-base and t'bird is one of those "mission
critical" apps.

> > Part of our IT policy is to disable remembering passwords by locking
> > signon.rememberSignons to false and
> > pref.privacy.disable_button.view_passwords to true. *Setting a master
> > password is not an option.
>
> If you could remember passwords, that would be your best option.
> Otherwise I don't think there is another way around this.
>
> Standard8

That's what I figured. Thanks for the help Standard8.

--Dean