Eclipse secure storage

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yannisf picture yannisf · Nov 19, 2010 · Viewed 75.3k times · Source

Is it possible to disable completely the secure storage password of Eclipse? I am running Eclipse Helios on Windows 7.

Answer

exo_cw picture exo_cw · Mar 25, 2011

To disable the master password prompt you have to specifiy a file containing the password with -eclipse.password, see Eclipse SDK Help and Bug 241223.

The complete procedure is as follows (this is on Linux, on Windows it should work as well if you change the paths):

  1. Exit Eclipse
  2. Delete the directory ~/.eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.security
  3. Create a text file containing your master password, e.g. echo "secret" > ~/.eclipse/master

  4. Add to the very top of eclipse.ini, found in the Eclipse program directory (as two lines, don't combine into one)

    -eclipse.password
/home/user/.eclipse/master
  5. Start Eclipse again.

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