Eclipse secure storage

Here's my solution in Nano.2 on Windows, and it's nice and easy and seems to be working:

  • Window -> Preferences -> General -> Security -> Security Storage
  • Password tab: in the Master password providers section, uncheck Windows Integration and UI Prompt

I also tried deleting the [Default Secure Storage] in the Contents tab like some other answers suggested, but this is not needed and it gets recreated upon restart anyways.


  1. Windows->preferences->then type "secure storage"
  2. In the Contents tab, select [Default Secure Storage].
  3. Click Delete.
  4. Let Eclipse restart.

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.