Re: FTP plugin master password

Alan Ezust <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.jedit.user
Message-ID <CALy5K9ryTH111Q64BUc4PwdzuqxuHj4JPk7RwQJTS5u6mMGyRQ@mail.gmail.com>
It no longer saves without encryption to some master password.
Your only option is to tell it to not save at all.

I felt that the previous technique of saving passwords (FTP 1.0.3 and
earlier) was almost like plain-text password storage which is not a good
idea.


On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote:

> I recently upgraded jEdit and installed a new set of plugind, including
> the FTP plugin. This now wants me to set a master password in order to
> save passwords to the local disk.
>
> I neither need, nor want, this feature. But I cannot find out how to
> disable it, or force it to accept an empty password. Nor can I work out
> how to change the password once I've set it.
>

Yeah, there is no way to do that right now.


> Can anyone given me any pointers on any of these? At the very least, I
> need to be able to easily change the master password without losing any
> already saved passwords.
>

There is no way to do that right now either, sorry.

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