# Prompt for proxy password on startup

**URL:** https://discourse.jabref.org/t/prompt-for-proxy-password-on-startup/410
**Category:** Features
**Tags:** ui, proxy, preferences
**Created:** [January 2, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/prompt-for-proxy-password-on-startup/410 "2017-01-02T21:31:56Z")
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### Author: ![matthiasgeiger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/matthiasgeiger/32/7_2.png) [@matthiasgeiger](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/matthiasgeiger)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/prompt-for-proxy-password-on-startup/410/1 "2017-01-02T21:31:56Z")

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If a proxy with authentification is used it is not save to store the password locally (regardless whether this is directly in plain text or “encrypted” - as our encryption/decryption algorithm would be open source).

Thus there should be an option NOT to store a password for an authenticating proxy, but prompt for the password on each startup.

_(Sidenote: this is a followup of the [GitHub issue #2249](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/2249))_

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Please vote if you support this proposal:

_Poll ([view on site](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/prompt-for-proxy-password-on-startup/410/1))_