Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device
RUF
and what does the Software Security Device do?
TIA
Ralph Fox
RUF <R...@NoDen.Con> wrote:
> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)
> Subject: Please enter the master password for the Software Security Device
> Why does this message pop up every time I go online with TB 2.0.0.22?
Because
1. At one time, in Thunderbird, you went to "Tools � Options � Privacy"
and you put a check-mark in the box "Use a master password to encrypt
stored passwords".
2. Thunderbird needs one of your stored passwords, to do one of the following
check for new email
check for new newsgroup messages
Because the stored password is encrypted, Thunderbird needs the
master password.
> and what does the Software Security Device do?
It encrypts all your stored passwords, using the master password
as the key.
> TIA
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Regards
Ralph
RUF
>> TIA
Thanks Ralph but why should it demand the password EVERY time the mail
is checked? If this continues, I'll have to dump it.
Wilf
I'm guessing it will keep asking until you give it the master password;
without that, it can't get to the stored password it needs to connect to
the mail server.
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Wilf
Bernd
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
TB asks for your master password every time you start TB (if configured
to look for mails at startup). I it wouldn't then such a password
wouldn't make sense ...
Bernd
RUF
Thanks Wilf and Bernd for the suggestions. I have unchecked the Check
for new messages at startup, so that might reduce the password request
to one a day. TBird is usually open all day. .
Ralph Fox
Tbird doesn't do that here. Tbird asks the first time I go online.
After that, TBird won't ask again until I close and re-start TBird.
If your TBird is asking every time, check and adjust the following setting:
1. Go to "Tools � Options � Advanced � General"
2. Click the button labelled "Config Editor"
3. Scroll down to find the lines whose "Preference Name" is
security.ask_for_password
4. If this line is bold and the value is not 0, then
right-click on this line and choose "reset".
The value should now go to 0.
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Regards
Ralph
Dan
If after entering the Master Password your new email is retrieved but it
asks for it again minute later, that must mean TB is getting
disconnected from the mail server and has to re-initialize. Is your
Internet connection sound?
RUF
Huge tanks guys for your efforts. I fixed the problem by deleting that
nuisance manager
mane...@gmail.com
mane...@gmail.com
>
> and what does the Software Security Device do?
>
Warren
Onno Ekker
passwords, so people going to Tools -> Options -> Security -> Passwrds
-> Saved Passwords on yur comoputer can't see your password.
You need to enter the master password in order to use such a password.
If you don't want your passwords protected, you can remove the master
password.
Onno
odello....@gmail.com
Ed Mullen
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/master-password-requested-but-not-set>
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Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> odello....@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, August 7, 2009 8:08:29 AM UTC+2, RUF wrote:
>>> Why does this message pop up every time I go online with TB 2.0.0.22?
>>>
>>> and what does the Software Security Device do?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>
> This may help:
>
> <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/master-password-requested-but-not-
set>
to a message from 2009. I doubt if the question is still relevant.
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