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Re: mozilla-firebird & passwords



On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:30:31PM -0500, David P James wrote:
> On January 27, 2004 07:13, Matt Price wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, pressing "View Passwords" does absolutely 
> nothing at all? The password manager in Firebird was changed in the 0.7 
> release which might be the source of the problem. The new password 
> manager ("Satchel") is supposed to be backwards-compatible with the old 
> files, but it might not be in all cases. Creating a new profile will 
> tell you if the issue is one of an old profile or a different problem 
> altogether. These kind of things happen with software in a state of 
> flux...

yes, I do think these password files are from pre-0.7; aybethis is the
issue
> 
> At any rate, a pre-0.7 password file is the same (essentially) as a 
> Mozilla Navigator password file, so theoretically it ought to be 
> possible to copy it over to a mozilla profile and clean it up there.

> 
sounds great -- but what's the name of the password file?  is it
cert8.db?   I don't see an obvious 'psswords' file.  



thanks!

matt

> I think I also remember seeing a post in the mozillazine forums from 
> someone who had managed to migrate a password file.



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