I believe if you regenerated another settings-security.xml file with the same master password, while the hash would be different it would effectively decrypt the passwords.
However, you make a good point - automatically generating it would be a nice additional feature. - Brett On 04/01/2011, at 7:40 PM, Anders Hammar wrote: > Is there any reason why I would need to remember my master password (used > for encrypting my server passwords in settings.xml)? I haven't found any and > I'm thinking that it could be auto-generated (by some tool) when creating > settings-security.xml, instead of specified by the user. > > /Anders -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
