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I am looking for a way to prevent users from seeing saved passwords.

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tantuddy
tantuddy
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I am fairly new to thunderbird. i saw that you can view saved passwords from the security tab. is there anyway i can prevent users from viewing this?

I am fairly new to thunderbird. i saw that you can view saved passwords from the security tab. is there anyway i can prevent users from viewing this?

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Alan Mead
Alan Mead
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Do you need a master password?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/protect-your-thunderbird-passwords-master-password

tantuddy
tantuddy Question owner
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I don't want the users to enter a password every time there is a new session. i tried the pref.privacy.disable_button.view_passwords;0 to disable saved password button but it is not working.