@Olumide One reason that this may be happening: On startup NB will try to find its way to netbeans.org to see if there are updates available. This may trigger the Authenticator to go into action if you are on a site with a network proxy and that proxy requires authentication.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Peter Nabbefeld <peter.nabbef...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using NB 8.1/8.2/dev on Arch Linux. > > When starting NetBeans, I'm asked for the master password, with the > following hint: > > "The IDE can remember passwords for you, protected by a master password. > If you have not chosen one yet, do so now; you will be prompted for it in > subsequent sessions when needed. You can also change the master password > whenever you are prompted for it." > > The passwords will be stored in some keystore. I've found the following > related link: http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqMasterPasswordDialog > > Obviously, in releases 7.x, setting the master password could be > optionally enabled. Since 8.x it seems to be required. > > However, as the document contains the following phrase: "[...] as of > NetBeans 6.9 the IDE tries to use your operating system's native facility > to store passwords.", using either password store should not be specified > by netbeans, but by underlying OS instead. But I don't now if either > keystore could be disabled on a per-application-basis. > > However, NetBeans looks for available keystores and sorts them according > to a position number - kwallet having position number 99, keyring having > 100, so kwallet "wins". > > You could set "netbeans.keyring.no.native=true", then neither should be > used. > > However, I don't see any possibility in the current code, to switch the > keystore used. You could implement a property to switch the keystore, my > personal favorite would be "org.netbeans.modules.keyring.preferredKeystore" > (a preferred keystore allows to find some other, if it is not available). > The code should be added to api the "keyring" module (class "Keyring" could > store both results and return the preferred one, if found). > > Kind regards > Peter > > > > > Am 09.03.2018 um 02:11 schrieb Olumide: > >> Hello List, >> >> Whenever I start netbeans-8.0.2 the KDE Wallet is launched and regardless >> of the look-and-feel, GTK+ or otherwise. How can I stop this from >> happening? My Os is Ubuntu Linux 17.10. >> >> Regards, >> >> - Olumide >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > >
