diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 4e7dcb1..20c1822 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ nexus_data_basedir: /data
 nexus_data_dir: '{{ nexus_data_basedir }}/sonatype-work/nexus'
 nexus_logdir: '/var/log/nexus'
 nexus_accesslog_maxhistory: 20
+nexus_wrapper_prefs_root: '{{ nexus_install_basedir }}/nexus_prefsdir'
 nexus_wrapper_initmemory: 256
 nexus_wrapper_maxmemory: 1024
 nexus_wrapper_conf_dir: '{{ nexus_webapp_dir }}/bin/jsw/conf'
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index e5ad382..b4b34e6 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@
   tags: [ 'nexus', 'nexus_oss' ]
 
 - block:
-  - name: Create the nexus wrapper log directory
-    file: dest={{ nexus_wrapper_logdir }} state=directory owner={{ nexus_user }} group={{ nexus_user }} mode=0755
+  - name: Create the nexus wrapper log and prefs directories
+    file: dest={{ item }} state=directory owner={{ nexus_user }} group={{ nexus_user }} mode=0755
+    with_items:
+      - '{{ nexus_wrapper_logdir }}'
+      - '{{ nexus_wrapper_prefs_root }}'
 
   - name: Install the nexus wrapper configuration
     template: src=wrapper.conf.j2 dest={{ nexus_wrapper_conf_dir }}/wrapper.conf owner=root group=root mode='0644'
diff --git a/templates/wrapper.conf.j2 b/templates/wrapper.conf.j2
index 1861079..f272312 100644
--- a/templates/wrapper.conf.j2
+++ b/templates/wrapper.conf.j2
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ wrapper.java.additional.1=-Djava.io.tmpdir=./tmp
 wrapper.java.additional.2=-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
 wrapper.java.additional.3=-Dcom.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool.protocol="plain ssl"
 wrapper.java.additional.3.stripquotes=TRUE
+wrapper.java.additional.4=-Djava.util.prefs.userRoot={{ nexus_wrapper_prefs_root }}
 #wrapper.java.additional.4=-Xdebug
 #wrapper.java.additional.5=-Xnoagent
 #wrapper.java.additional.6=-Djava.compiler=NONE