Cannot upload to board over the air, if wrong password was provided once. IDE caches the user fields

[kittaakos]

Describe the problem

When uploading to a MKR1000 based on this tutorial, users have to provide the password. If the password was incorrectly provided the upload with fail with Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1. Trying to upload again will always fail because the user fields are cached by the IDE.

To reproduce

• Follow this tutorial to upload over the air,
• When prompted, provide an incorrect password,
• Upload will fail (expected),
• Upload again; it will always fail because the fields are cached.

Reloading the window, restarting the IDE, or opening a new sketch and providing the correct password solves the issue.

ide2_caching_fields.mp4

Expected behavior

Perhaps there should be a meaningful error code/message from the CLI; authentication failed, and then the IDE will know that the user fields should be discarded.

Or

Provide a command to discard the user fields cache.

Arduino IDE version

7c361cf

Operating system

macOS

Operating system version

12.5.1

Additional context

No response

Issue checklist

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• I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
• My report contains all necessary details

[ubidefeo]

@kittaakos
when you need to change the password you use the menu item Sketch > Configure and Upload

[per1234]

Closing because this is the intended behavior: #550

I have submitted a proposal for how to make the IDE's behavior more intuitive in this case: #1386

We also need to document this new Sketch > Configure and Upload interface, but that documentation is hosted in other repositories, so the tasks are not tracked in this issue tracker.