Question

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

Answer 1

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.