Re: Thunderbird & Lightning keep asking for Passwords

[gNeandr]

On 19.01.2013 18:43, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 1/19/2013 8:51 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:
>> *** I x-posted this post but it never appeared. ***
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>>
>> I was having difficulties getting a new CalDAV calender to work, so I
>> tried the suggestion in bug 510850#c13:
>>
>> set "calendar.network.multirealm" to true
>>
>> That caused Thunderbird (or Lightning?) to ask me to log-in to *each* of
>> my 16(!) CalDav Google calendars and also into one of my Google e-mail
>> accounts on *each* restart of Thunderbird. The calendar log-in dialogs
>> have no check-box for "remember this password", and checking it in the
>> one e-mail account's dialog has no effect either.
>>
>> So, I set the about:config setting "calendar.network.multirealm" back to
>> false. So I'm back to the configuration that used to work. It should now
>> work again. But does it? No. Now I'm stuck.
>>
>> I suspect that Thunderbird and/or Lightning needs to be told to remember
>> passwords again. But how?
>>
>> Could someone *please* help me get rid of these password prompts? I
>> would *really* like to avoid re-installing all 16(!) of my calendars.
>>
>> Cross-posted, and "Follow-up" set to mozilla.support.calendar
>
> TB 15 to 17 has asked me for passwords continuously
> on my home Windows 7 x64 pc but not my office
> windows 7 x64 pc. It is very tiresome.
>
> Lynn
>

Just to add some observations:

I have a problem to add/use a Google Calendar in Lightning. Defining a
calendar (which is available with other service and also using an
Android Smartphone) these errors are thrown:
> ----------
> Fehler: Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a
(NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI) [nsIIOService2.newChannelFromURI]
> Quelldatei: resource://calendar/modules/calProviderUtils.jsm
> Zeile: 29
>
> -- this is ---
> 28 cal.prepHttpChannel = function calPrepHttpChannel(aUri,
aUploadData, aContentType, aNotificationCallbacks, aExisting) {
> 29 let channel = aExisting ||
cal.getIOService().newChannelFromURI(aUri);
>
> ----------
> Warnung: Fehler beim Lesen von Daten f�r Kalender:
{--calendarName--}. Allerdings ist dieser Fehler wahrscheinlich
vernachl�ssigbar, daher versucht das Programm fortzufahren. Fehlercode:
DAV_NOT_DAV. Beschreibung: Die Ressource auf
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/{--login1--}@googlemail.com/events/
ist entweder keine DAV-Sammlung oder sie ist nicht verf�gbar
> ----------


I'm using another Google Calendar which works well :
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/{--login2--}@googlemail.com/events/

For the second calendar it was necessary to enter login details, but
after restart it wasn't asked again.
(and yes I stored un/pw with TB PW manager).


Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106
Thunderbird/17.0.2 -- 20130106044124
Lightning 1.9

[Philipp Kewisch]

Asking for passwords again and again is a known issue, I hope to release
the fix for it soon.

Philipp

[Peter Lairo]

On Fr. 25.01.2013 09:28, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
> Asking for passwords again and again is a known issue, I hope to release
> the fix for it soon.

It's been an issue on-and-off for a few years already, so I hope you
don't mind me asking what you mean by fixing it "soon". Days? Weeks?
Months? Undetermined?

You mention "the" fix. That sounds hopeful. Does that mean you already
know the solution and have a fix almost ready?

I ask all this because I'm trying to ascertain whether I should wait for
the fix and live with entering my UN & PW seven times each time I load
Thunderbird, or if I should invest several hours in un- & re-installing
Lightning and reinstalling and re-configuring all my calendars, with the
risk that all that will still not fix the login problem (a scenario I
would really like to avoid).

Thanks for any insight you can provide to help me make this decision.
--
Regards,
Peter Lairo

Bugs I think are important:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250539
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391057
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436259
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446444

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[William Barnacle]

It's *really* irritating on Beta 19 TB + Lightning 2.1 B1!

I have several Google calendars plus an exchange calendar (via DavMail).
Each time I start TB I have to re-enter the exact same username and
password for each of the Ggl calendars, as well as the Ex calendar.
--
BB

[Peter Lairo]

On Fr. 25.01.2013 09:28, Philipp Kewisch wrote:

> Asking for passwords again and again is a known issue, I hope to release
> the fix for it soon.

I've placed a screenshot of the login dialog to my Public Dropbox
folder. Here's the link:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11228750/Thunderbird%20Lightning%20Repeated%20Login%20Problem%20-%20Google%20APIs.jpg

The dialog merely mentions "Google APIs", which isn't very helpful. It
would be very useful, if the dialog mentioned the *name of the calendar*
so we know which login UN & PW is needed and whether it is a less
important calendar we could Cancel out of to save some time and frustration.

[Philipp Kewisch]

On 1/27/13 12:53 PM, Peter Lairo wrote:
> On Fr. 25.01.2013 09:28, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
>> Asking for passwords again and again is a known issue, I hope to release
>> the fix for it soon.
>
> I've placed a screenshot of the login dialog to my Public Dropbox
> folder. Here's the link:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11228750/Thunderbird%20Lightning%20Repeated%20Login%20Problem%20-%20Google%20APIs.jpg
>
>
> The dialog merely mentions "Google APIs", which isn't very helpful. It
> would be very useful, if the dialog mentioned the *name of the calendar*
> so we know which login UN & PW is needed and whether it is a less
> important calendar we could Cancel out of to save some time and
> frustration.

That name is given by the server. If Google would consider adding the
calendar name to the realm, then we wouldn't need the multirealm hack
for Google API clients.

Of course we could see if its possible to add a rich dialog into the
networking layer that uses the calendar name and allows remembering
passwords either per calendar or per domain/realm, but this needs
someone to take care of it :)

Philipp

[won...@riseup.net]

I'm still having this problem (TB 24.2.0, Lightning 2.6.4, Xubuntu 12.04).

Has there been any progress?

Lee Worden