Stephen John Smoogen
2018-Oct-03 16:18 UTC
[CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 06:08, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> wrote:> > On 10/03/2018 11:34 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night. > > > > Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny > > me thinks. > > > > Try to log in to a web service I use and find that my password does not > > appear. > > > > Check preferences and find that no master password is set and the > > password list / table is empty. > > > > As I do not trust my passwords to the cloud I do not save these to my > > firefox profile ..... so back to manual entry for all my sites.... wow > > going to be a slow month as I reset scores of passwords. > > > > Any one else have this problem and any clues as to what causes this? I > > am concerned if this should happen again, as I have saved passwords for > > many scores of web services. > > Hi, > > haven't had that, but restoring logins.json and key3.db in > ~/.mozilla/firefox/.../ from your latest backup should do the trick. >It would seem that the problem is with upstream-upstream's (aka Firefox) cleaning up of items that are not supposed to be there after Firefox 58 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475775 It looks like it is deleting files it thinks should have been converted to a newer more secure version.. but don't seem to be for some reason. I am not sure if those files will just removed again every time you restore them.> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Stephen J Smoogen.
Akemi Yagi
2018-Oct-03 16:45 UTC
[CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:19 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:> It would seem that the problem is with upstream-upstream's (aka > Firefox) cleaning up of items that are not supposed to be there after > Firefox 58 > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475775 > > It looks like it is deleting files it thinks should have been > converted to a newer more secure version.. but don't seem to be for > some reason. I am not sure if those files will just removed again > every time you restore them.That link added to the related RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633932 Akemi
Rob Kampen
2018-Oct-04 08:27 UTC
[CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password
On 04/10/18 05:45, Akemi Yagi wrote:> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:19 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > >> It would seem that the problem is with upstream-upstream's (aka >> Firefox) cleaning up of items that are not supposed to be there after >> Firefox 58 >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475775 >> >> It looks like it is deleting files it thinks should have been >> converted to a newer more secure version.. but don't seem to be for >> some reason. I am not sure if those files will just removed again >> every time you restore them. > That link added to the related RHBZ: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633932Yes, that seems to describe what I am experiencing. As I usually keep FF open for days at a time, it has taken a while to show up. Will now try the $ export NSS_DEFAULT_DB_TYPE="sql"> > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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