Christoph many thanks. this was the answer --I have googled for an hour or more, and found others with this issue from as far back as 2008, but no solutions posted.
Kelvin, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Christoph Kutzinski <ku...@gmx.de> wrote: > I guess that Maven uses OpenSSH to open secure connections. > Putty Keys are not compatible with OpenSSH. > You have to export your Putty key in OpenSSH format and use that file for > Maven. > AFAIR you can do it in pageant or in puttygen. > > > Christoph > > > Am 29.05.2010 14:46, schrieb kelvin goodson: >> >> In trying to deploy artifacts I have the following stanzas in my >> settings.xml plugin >> >> <server> >> <id>me.people</id> >> <username>kelvingoodson</username> >> <privateKey>c:\Dev\sshKeyForPAO.ppk</privateKey> >> <passphrase>thisisnotmypassphrase</passphrase> >> <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions> >> <filePermissions>664</filePermissions> >> </server> >> <server> >> <id>me.people2</id> >> <username>kelvingoodson</username> >> <password>thisisnotmypassword</password> >> <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions> >> <filePermissions>664</filePermissions> >> </server> >> >> I have 2 issues ... >> >> 1) >> If I run the command ... >> mvn >> -DaltDeploymentRepository=me.people::default::scp://people.apache.org/home/kelvingoodson/public_html/sca-java/2.0-M5/RC1/maven >> verify gpg:sign install:install deploy:deploy >> >> I see the error ... >> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] Error deploying artifact: Authentication failed: Cannot >> connect. Reason: invalid privatekey: c:\Dev\sshKeyForPAO.ppk >> >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> but the key referenced in the me.people element is the one I register >> with pageant to successfully authenticate with people.apache.org >> >> 2) If I run the equivalent command, but using me.people2 I am asked >> for my password for every scp operation (it would take me I would >> guess 8 or more hours of pasting in my password to get the command to >> complete in this way) >> >> here's the output ... >> >> [INFO] Using alternate deployment repository >> >> me.people2::default::scp://people.apache.org/home/kelvingoodson/public_html/sca-java/2.0-M5/RC1/maven >> >> >> Note that too many successive login failures will result in further >> logins from your IP address being blocked. If this happens, contact >> <infrastruct...@apache.org>, mentioning your IP address so that it can >> be unblocked. >> >> >> : Keyboard interactive required, supplied password is ignored >> Password: : >> >> Ckues as to how to fix eiter/both of these issues are most welcome, thanks >> >> Kelvin. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
