Github user phansson commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/2#discussion_r139602369 --- Diff: o.n.core/src/org/netbeans/core/NbAuthenticator.java --- @@ -71,7 +74,19 @@ private NbAuthenticator() { static void install() { if (Boolean.valueOf(NbBundle.getMessage(GuiRunLevel.class, "USE_Authentication"))) { - setDefault(new NbAuthenticator()); + // Look for custom authenticator + Authenticator authenticator = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(Authenticator.class); + if (authenticator == null) { + authenticator = new NbAuthenticator(); + } + if (authenticator.getClass().equals(NbAuthenticator.class)) { --- End diff -- After analyzing hundreds of messages files (NB log files) from my customers there's one thing I'm certain of: you can never have too much logging. :-) Why do you think the logging calls are unnecessary?
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