Preference: hidden login passwords?
I would like to keep the passwords invisible to users at workstations, so that people can only access their office email when they are in the office.
Is there a way to block a user from accessing Thunderbird email account password?
(Why didn't I change to Thunderbird ten years ago!? I think I was ignorant of the utility of the imap pop3 distinction.)
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Well, it's a never ending challenge, depending on the creativity of users. The simple approach would be to add this in config editor
Set pref.privacy.disable_button.view_passwords to true
That hides it UNLESS they know the primary signin password for Windows, as that resets the value to false.
and if they're sneaky, they will discover the config issue and change to false.
And to prevent that, you could create a folder named distribution in the folder where Thunderbird.exe lives and add a file named policies.json with this content:
{
"policies": {
"BlockAboutConfig": true
}
}
to prevent accessing config editor, but then you run into the person discovering this trick and deleting the folder in program files. And then you're into looking into Windows security features to disable viewing the program files directory. It's a stack of dominoes. The above mentioned steps may work, depending on how desperately the people want the passwords. Another solution, if availalble, would be to use app passwords that are unique to the PC, eliminating entire problem. I'm think of Gmail, but there are others. Good luck. I encourage some experimentation prior to any rollout.
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