maven proxy settings - security hazard

2006-04-26 Thread Shukla, Sanjay
Maven needs proxy server url and credential information. However this poses a security risk as your password is in a plain text format. Is there some way to circumvent this ? .m2/settings.xml proxies proxy id1001/id activetrue/active protocolhttp/protocol

Re: maven proxy settings - security hazard

2006-04-26 Thread Kenney Westerhof
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Shukla, Sanjay wrote: Maven needs proxy server url and credential information. However this poses a security risk as your password is in a plain text format. Is there some way to circumvent this ? I don't think so. But you can use unix file/directory permissions to

Re: maven proxy settings - security hazard

2006-04-26 Thread Kathryn Huxtable
I always use scpexe instead of scp, thus enabling me to use ssh-agent (or pageant if you're using putty on windows) to hold my credentials. That way the only thing that is in the file is the location of my key and my username. The passphrase must be entered by me externally. -K On 4/26/06 3:22