Hi QGIS Users,

I've been battling with the 'master' password for years now because I've been 
trying to work with a centrally managed password store. The method is simple 
enough, you have a plugin that you distribute to the devices you are 
configuring, and the plugin sets and activates your password store. This works 
fine and is all good until someone breaks or disables the plugin.

In this situation, by design, the user doesn't know the password and needs our 
help, which is fine, but the issue is that QGIS asks for the password once (or 
more) for every layer in any project they open. This creates a nasty user 
experience if they open a project with a lot of layers.

Is there a way to suppress the message completely?

I ask for two reasons:

  1.  QGIS already handles it fine as without the prompt the layers will just 
fail and we will get the handle bad layers dialogue. This means I don't think 
the master password prompt is needed at project load at all*.
  2.  The term 'master' is not favoured anymore and I'd rather this were 
renamed to 'primary' or 'main' password if we are going to continue having the 
prompt.
* I think the prompt is only really needed when you click on the authentication 
tab in the settings.

I'm happy to switch to the developer list and look at whether I can at least do 
the name change as I'm sure that should be mostly just UI changes but ideally 
there would just be an option to supress the dialogue completely. I'm aware 
some will want it so I was just hoping there is a setting under advanced I can 
use. Does anyone know if there is one?

Thanks,
Paul Wittle
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