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sean_at_33050sean_at_33050 

Eclipse fails after forced password change in SF

Since a forced change in SalesForce password, when I start eclipse I get:
INVALID_LOGIN: Invalid username or password or locked out.
 
I think because eclipse saves your login credentials somewhere. So I go into the eclipse project->properties->AppExchange and try to enter my new working Salesforce password. When I click apply or ok I get the same error message as above.
So how do I tell eclipse my new salesforce password????
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks,
Sean
sean_at_33050sean_at_33050

This did not turn up when I searched "eclipse" on this message board but I found the following with a Google search:

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Underneath your project there is a directory called ".settings" in addition to the SControls directory.  In there there is a file called "com.appexchange.toolkit.prefs".

If you open that file, it has your username and password there in cleartext (which some might call a large security breach).  You can edit it and save it, and see what happens.
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And it worked. One thing to note is when I attempted to open eclipse without modifying the file specified above, (still had old password), my Salesforce login was "locked out" and needed to be reset.

Sean