[josm-dev] single session authenticatoin

[Sebastian Klein]

Mikel Maron wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In Kenya, we have people often sharing computers. With JOSM, this causes an 
> issue, because people forget to change the saved authentication credential to 
> their own. You can choose to not save credentials, but this then leads JOSM to 
> ask for them on every single API call, which is basically unusable.

JOSM remembers the credentials for one session, even if you choose not 
to save it permanently. Please report a bug (including used version) if 
this is not the case.

> Is there a solution to this? Ideally, login/password would only be stored for a 
> single session. 

So you like to have an (advanced) option to not show the "save user and 
password" checkbox in the credentials dialog?

> Would be a great help to us in Kenya!

There is another option:
  * Create links on the desktop, on for each user.
  * Change the link from
  	java -jar .../josm-tested.jar
    to
	java -Djosm.home=.../josm-user1 -jar .../josm-tested.jar

(Replace "..." by the path to the preference folder for user1 and the 
path to josm-tested.jar respectively.)

This will keep the preferences for each user in a separate folder.

Sebastian