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[IDV #PLI-571725]: IDV has cached my password and I can't purge it.

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  • Subject: [IDV #PLI-571725]: IDV has cached my password and I can't purge it.
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:17:20 -0700
Nathan,

You can go to ~/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv folder and delete or rename
authentication.xml file. That action will clear you cache.

Best,

Unidata IDV Support

> Full Name: Nathan Potter
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: OPENDAP Inc.
> Package Version: 5.0u2 build date:2014-11-12 20:09 UTC
> Operating System: Mac OS X
> Hardware: Java: home: /Applications/IDV_5.0u2/jre.bundle/Contents/Home/jre 
> version: 1.7.0_67 j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily
> Description of problem:
> 
> I am evaluating the IDV's authentication capablitities for access web
> resources. While I was successfully able to authenticate (using an OAuth2
> auth flow - woot!) to access DAP resources. However, I clicked the "Save
> password" check box in the authentication dialog that IDV popped up,
> and now I have now idea how to purge that information. It's is most
> certainly cached, as I can easily access all of the datasets on the
> authentication protected service with out resupllying my cerdentials,
> and this ablitly persists across multiple invocations of IDV.
> 
> I imagine the credentials are cached on disk somewhere - will someone
> please tell me where?
> 
> Is there is a part of the IDV interface that allows one to manage cached
> credentials?
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PLI-571725
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed