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

By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:38:17 +0000

Thanks Ted! That worked a charm.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:52:21 +0000

Just upgraded to Eclipse 3.6.1 (actually, MyEclipse 9.0) and, wow, this tomfoolery with the passwords is super frustrating! This frustration will not stand, man.

The fix posted in Comment 28 of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=226482 (same address as the bug report above) worked for me on Windows 7. (Thanks, Oleg!) Specifically:

* Download the jar behind the “attachment 189330″ link in Comment 28
* Shut down Eclipse if it’s running
* Place the downloaded jar in the dropins directory in the Eclipse installation
* Start Eclipse

Eclipse will give you a pop-up message about the detected jar.

If you already have your CVS password saved, be sure to read Comment 27. Basically, it describes how to blow away your saved CVS password so you can enter it once and for all.

By: stephan

stephan — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:29:38 +0000

I use on OpenSuse 11.0 x64 Eclipse 3.6.1 (x64) with the same problem. I worked as dire Feb 27th, 2009 at 07:42 described but after restart the UIPrompt was enabled again and default storage was set again.

Nevertheless I typed my CVS access again but left the secure password empty (by pressing ESC or CANCEL-button). Afterwards I’ve never been bothered by this.

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.