[Design] Fwd: [Bug 8697] Set Master Password verbiage...

[Mimi Yin]

http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8697

Forwarding bug discussion re: Password Protection to the list. Heikki  
and I are discussing:
1. What it means to Turn off Password Protection, once you've set a  
Master Password;
2. Verbiage for the File>>Protect password... menu item. It ceases to  
make sense once you've already set a master password.

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Why don't we just call it Password Protection...

...and then that will work in all cases?

As for turing off password protection, I think you should be able to  
do that if you remember the master password, without losing all your  
account passwords. There should perhaps be 3 cases:
+ Reset master password (must know old master password, preserves  
account passwords)
+ Turn off password protection (must know old master password,  
preserves account passwords)
+ Forgot master password (erases all account passwords - start from  
scratch)

In the last case, do you also unpublish shares and whatnot? Or do you  
just stop syncing until the user re-enters their account info?

Mimi

Begin forwarded message:

> From: bug-comment at osafoundation.org
> Date: April 6, 2007 10:33:30 AM PDT
> To: mimi at osafoundation.org
> Subject: [Bug 8697] Set Master Password verbiage...
>
> http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8697
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> ------- Comment #2 from heikki at osafoundation.org  2007-04-06 10:33  
> PST -------
> Could you provide the exact text? I have a hard time coming up with  
> titles
> other than what they are now.
>
> Set Master Password     => Start protecting passwords
> Change Master Password  => Continue protecting passwords
>
> don't sound very good...
>
> The closest to getting rid of the master password is to reset it.  
> This will
> clear all passwords as well. The primary reason for this is that if  
> you forget
> the master password this is the only way to get the app usable again.
>
> Button order is a separate bug, and we have that issue with many  
> dialogs. We
> need a systematic fix, rather than patching each dialog separately.
>
> Btw, the spec is at
> http://svn.osafoundation.org/docs/trunk/docs/specs/rel0_7/ 
> Passwords-0.7.html so
> you should probably put stuff in there. (I just realized it needs a  
> section for
> dump and reload.)
>
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