I don't know if this is relevant to Massimo's case but it might be: I had a problem a while back with Fedora 15 (and I don't remember which version of OO or LO): I would discover that I could open a password-protected spreadsheet without being prompted for the password. It turned out that it had something to do with Fed 15 shutting down w/o prompting to save an open and changed spreadsheet. When restarted, the spreadsheet would open without password protection. The workaround seemed to be to do a 'save as' at that point and check 'save with password'.
More recently this hasn't seemed to be a problem, but I think it has happened once or twice, though I didn't bother to try to figure out why. On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > On 12/17/2013 10:12 AM, Massimo Del Zotto wrote: > > However, I recently had a problem with OOo password protection. Somehow it > > disabled password protection for a file I was working on and it took me a > > while to restore it. Asking for help on OOo forum, I have been informed > > password protection is somehow considered "unnecessary" by... I don't know > > who to be honest. > > You mean recently?As in the latest version of LO has a problem with > passwords? > > > The forum administrator strongly > > suggested me to not use it, and even pointed out a few previous cases in > > which password protection caused data loss (!!!). > Which forum, do you have a link to the post? > > > I think *this is unacceptable *so I started looking more seriously at LO. > > Digging the mailing list archives, I noticed there are quite a few messages > > regarding password protection. It seems most problem were between keyboard > > and chair, the only exception being perhaps an inter-operability problem > > after switching to AES-256. > > > > In your experience, how is LO with password protection? > Massimo, you seem to be more informed of this than I, but, I am only > aware of one (what I consider) real bug that existed with LO and > passwords. At one point, I was no longer able to open a password > protected file. Specifically, one version of LO was not able to open a > password protected file. I am pretty sure it was LO and not AOO anyway. > > I believe that I have seen things such as: > > 1. I forgot my password, how I open my document > 2. I am not able to open a password protected document created by MS Office > 3. Problems signing a document > > I don't ever remember anyone saying that password protection should be > dropped. Does not mean that it has not been said. I have seen people > pushing to drop the ability to write non-ODF format, but I don't > remember anyone advocating no support for passwords. > > I have also seen reports of another bug that sometimes causes total data > loss of a file, but, since it is not reproducible in any sort of > meaningful way, the bug has not been researched. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
