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Michael Osipov commented on MNG-6895:
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Great, this is something I really wanted to have in the system for years now. I
will definitve put this on the roadmap. My actual goal is to decouple the
storage of credentials to multiple providers like Git or Subversions do.
Plaintext, Windows Credential Store, Keychain, KWallet, etc.
> Add aliasing feature for settings.xml:///servers/server
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MNG-6895
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6895
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Settings
> Reporter: Jin Kwon
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x
>
>
> In some cases there might be multiple server elements for the same endpoint
> with different {{id}}s.
> {code:xml}
> ...
> <servers>
> ...
> <server>
> <id>some</id>
> <username>username</username>
> <password>{password}</password>
> </server>
> <server>
> <id>other</id> <!-- just a mismatched value in same organization -->
> <username>username</username> <!-- same as some -->
> <password>{password}</password> <!-- same as some -->
> </server>
> ...
> {code}
> Can we have an attribute look like this?
> {code:xml}
> ...
> <servers>
> ...
> <server>
> <id>some</id>
> <username>username</username>
> <password>{password}</password>
> </server>
> <server aliasing="some">
> <id>other</id> <!-- just a mismatched value in same organization -->
> </server>
> ...
> {code}
> Or
> {code:xml}
> ...
> <servers>
> ...
> <server aliases="other">
> <id>some</id>
> <username>username</username>
> <password>{password}</password>
> </server>
> ...
> {code}
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