How can I have my master password expire after 30mins?
I know its not exactly a "problem", but I'd like to have my master password expire ~30mins (or other time period) after using it, similarly to how sudo behaves in the Ubuntu shell (and probably other variants of linux, but I only know of this one definitely doing it).
Basically, my reasoning is that Firefox stays open for days at a time and I want to avoid autofilling of passwords unless the person using it knows the pass or has been temporarily been granted short-term access by someone who knows it (ie, me).
I was also going to mention the prevention of viewing passwords, but a quick test just now shows that this protection is already implemented ;)
Anyhow, is the expiry (requiring the user to re-type the master password after a period of time) currently possible to achieve using existing Firefox features or plugins?
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You can use the Master Password Timeout add-on, it is not exactly what you want but does something similar. After a period of inactivity (default 5 minutes but configurable), it will lock out the master security device, requiring the master password to be entered again to use the saved passwords.
I have been looking at some of Firefox's hidden preferences and this feature may already be available, though I have not tried this. The following settings came from an article that was referring to settings for Mozilla Mail, but they are included in Firefox, but I do not know if they work in Firefox.
- Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
- Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
- In the filter box type security
- Double-click on the preference security.ask_for_password and change its value to 2
- Double-click on the preference security.password_lifetime an change its value to the number of minutes before the password expires
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