[Bug 217300]

[2-brian]

(In reply to Brian Smith (:briansmith), was bsmith at mozilla.com (:bsmith) from comment #94)
> 2) The patch contains a prompt that asks "Do you want to save master
> password to system password manager?" But, this seems like the wrong
> question. I think, instead, the "Change Password" dialog box should look
> something like this:
> 
>     (*) Protect my data with my system password (recommended)
>     ( ) Use a master password:
>         New Password:     [           ]
>         Confirm Password: [           ]
>     ( ) Don't protect my data
> 
> If we did it this way, then we wouldn't need that separate prompt.

Now, let me argue against myself.

Shouldn't the users that care about protecting their passwords be using
full-disk encryption with a system password already? Why don't we just
remove the master password mechanism on Linux completely, and rely on
users use of operating-system-level protection of their whole profile?
That is, wouldn't the best UI be this?:

      Mozilla recommends that you use a system password
      and full-disk encryption to protect your data; if
      you do that, then a master password is not very
      helpful. We still support using a master password 
      for now, but we highly recommend against using
      one, and we may remove this misfeature in a
      future version.
     
      [ ] Use a master password:
          New Password:     [           ]
          Confirm Password: [           ]

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