Comments on: “Secure Storage” in Ganymede is forced paranoia

By: mike

mike — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:57:55 +0000

I just wasted two F*CKING hours trying solve this issue until I read Ben’s last comment that it’s currently not solvable under x64! All I want to do now is punch my fist into the face of the guy who had the idea for this forced secure storage! … May I? Please? It would relief me enough to forget about it!

By: Ben Vitale

Ben Vitale — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:38:11 +0000

I was not able to use this workaround either, but that’s because I’m on 64-bit windows. The master password provider for Windows is not supported on x64. The only alternative is accept the UI prompting, or not be able to save passwords into secure storage.

The Eclipse bug for this is https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=226482 if you want to express your support for this issue.

By: HeliosUpdate

HeliosUpdate — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:12:56 +0000

Man, Helios is just out, and I cannot get this tweak to work.

How the hell can they leave this like this ?
Is there a place to leave “official” requests ?

By: Jaco Vosloo

Jaco Vosloo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:21:36 +0000

If I disable secure storage as described here I can no longer enter passwords for the proxy authentication!
If I find the “fokken poes” developer that designed this I would love to leave a token of my appreciation on their doorstep…

By: Baggio

Baggio — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:48:37 +0000

It worked for me.

Make sure you go to General –> Security –> Secure Storage –> Contents and delete the Default Secure Storage.

Thank you, guys!

By: PasswordMaster

PasswordMaster — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:02:21 +0000

None of above worked here, with ganymede or galileo! This is very anoying.

By: dire

dire — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:42:39 +0000

Works for me if you (uncheck the UI Prompt – as above) and also delete the CVS [Default Secure Storage] entry under General –> Security –> Secure Storage –> Contents.

I did not need to delete the security_handler file (perhaps this does the same thing?).

Restarted eclipse, prompted for username/password for the last time – phew!

The ~/.eclipse/passwordfile.txt does not seem to be required.

By: Prantor

Prantor — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:10:06 +0000

This security paranoia is driving me nuts. I am ready to quit eclipse in favor of other alternatives. Don’t get in between me and my productivity with you paranoia. This is how some a perfectly good IDE becomes blot ware.

By: tedman

tedman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:16:30 +0000

David, you comment doesn’t seem to work on my machine.

I assume you actually meant “… Security -> Secure Storage” then under “master password providers” uncheck “UI Prompt”.

I’ve tried this before, and I just tried it again with the latest version, although it doesn’t ask me for a “master password” it also doesn’t store your password and it’ll keep asking for your password every time you close eclipse and open it again.

Did you miss a step in the instructions?

Oh an additional comment on my previous work around, when adding those lines make sure it’s added in the eclipse arguments section, not the vm arguments section, i.e. put it before the -vmargs line

By: david

david — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:07:23 +0000

You can uncheck the ‘master password provider’ in Window > Preferences > General > Security > Security Provider. Close eclipse and remove the security_handler file in your .eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security directory.

Open eclipse again and sync with cvs/svn and check the ‘remember password’ option. Type your password for the last time. Voila.