As you say you either grant anonymous access to the repo or you don't. If you don't allow anonymous access, every user needs to provide his/her credentials. This is what the user specific settings.xml file is for. Put it there.
If you think that creating that file is difficult for a user, you need to look into some tool aiding you with that. One way is through a Maven plugin included in Nexus Pro (the licensed version of Nexus), but it shouldn't be too hard creating some default template file somewhere and then provide a script or the command to copy that file. /Anders On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:22, wujek.srujek <wujek.sru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. Here is my situation: we have an internal repository that used HTTP > basic > authentication. This repository is defined in the parent pom of the project > to create a portable build. However, when I check this project out along > with its submodules, mvn package doesn't download the dependencies, as > maven > complains it doesn't have the security credentials and cannot authenticate. > The only way I could find is to put the credentials in the settings.xml > file. However, this will require the user to create this file somehow, so > the build will be environment-dependent. I can make this settings.xml file > available somewhere, but this will require more actions from the user and > also it will have to be remembered. The other option is to allow anonymous > read access to our repository, but this is outside my decision, and it will > not happen. Another option would be to be able to specify the security > credentials and repository id on the command line; I couldn't find anything > on the net, however. > Is specifying the credentials on the command line possible at all? I know > this can be messy, as there can be many repositories and I would have to > somehow bind the credentials to the correct repo. Something like this > maybe: > mvn package -DrepositoryId.1=id1 -Did1.username=user1 -Did1.password=pass1 > -DrepositoryId.2=id2 -Did2.username=user2 -Did2.password=pass2 > > or maybe there is any other way? > > Regards. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Security-credentials-to-repository-on-the-command-line-tp26606415p26606415.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
