Those ids correspond to the credentials defined in your settings.xml If the servers are different but all will always belong to the same single sign-on realm then perfectly fine to keep the same id
If they are different realms (even if you are being a bold boy using the same password for every server) use different ids. (because others may not be as bold as you) On Thursday, 15 November 2012, Davis, Chad wrote: > I'm wondering what the scope of the id's are in the various elements where > you can reference a repository. To be specific, if I have definitions of > my repos in <repositories>, <distributionManagement>, <pluginRepositories> > are the id's supposed to be unique? > > What happens if they aren't? In some cases, it seems that they are the > same repos. For instance, my repository and pluginRepository both point to > the same repo, so it seems to make sense to have the same id. > > > > >