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

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Heikki, see below :)

On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> Why don't we just call it Password Protection...
>
> As a menu item, yes, this is great.
>
> What should the set/change dialog, and other dialog captions be?

I think we can call the dialog: Password Protection

When Setting the Master Password:

===
Title: Password Protection
-----
Protect your account passwords with a Master Password.

Master password: [                                ]
Confirm password: [                                ]
Quality meter: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do not forget your master password or your account passwords will be  
lost.

											[Protect Passwords][Cancel]
===
(Let's be explicit that just the account passwords will be lost :o)


When Changing the Master Password

===
Title: Password Protection
-----
Change your Master Password:

Old master password: [                                ]
New master password: [                                ]
Confirm password: [                                ]
Quality meter: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do not forget your master password or your account passwords will be  
lost.

[Remove Password Protection]			[Change Master Password][Cancel]
===

If user selects [Turn off Password Protection], we warn them:

===
Title: Remove Password Protection
------
Removing Password Protection will erase all of your account passwords.
								[Remove Password Protection] [Cancel]
===

>> 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)
>
> In practice the above mean: change master password back to "". I don't
> see any difference between the two choices, btw. This would be even
> possible today if I allowed the change dialog to accept empty new  
> master
> password.
>
> Although doable, I'd say feature creep and file a bug and target it to
> Future. Note that Firefox and Thunderbird password managers don't have
> this feature either.

Hmm, can you log this as a separate bug to address post-preview? Add  
option to Turn off Password Protection without losing 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?
>
> I currently don't do anything like that, so it is all manual. Note  
> that
> if you forget master password all your network requests that require
> account passwords will fail. You must reset/erase all passwords, then
> re-enter account passwords.

Ok

>
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