Is it possible to pass a password in Maven Deploy in the command line?

Question

This is the way it currently works, and it's the Maven Deploy Plugin Usage

pom.xml

[...]   <distributionManagement>     <repository>       <id>internal.repo</id>       <name>MyCo Internal Repository</name>       <url>Host to Company Repository</url>     </repository>   </distributionManagement> [...] 

settings.xml

[...]     <server>       <id>internal.repo</id>       <username>someUser</username>       <password>somePassword</password>     </server> [...] 

and what I'm trying to achieve is finding a way in which the username and password are typed in at the command line. to achieve mvn deploy -someUser -somePassword

Answer 1

The settings.xml is considered personal, so for that reason the username+password are stored in the (user-)settings.xml. So in general there's no reason to pass them as argument. (btw, passwords can be stored encrypted here) The maven-deploy-plugin has no option to pass them via commandline. However, I've seen hacks like:

<username>${internal.repo.username}</username> 

And now you can do -Dinternal.repo.username=someUser

Answer 2

I'll lay out here the full solution, but basically Robert Scholte's solution works brilliant.

In your ~/.m2/settings.xml you should have the following

<settings>     <servers>         <server>             <id>${repo.id}</id>             <username>${repo.login}</username>             <password>${repo.pwd}</password>         </server>     </servers> </settings>   

and then you just

mvn -Drepo.id=myRepo -Drepo.login=someUser -Drepo.pwd=somePassword clean install

You can even use your environment variable (if you are doing that on the remote server/container, for example):

mvn -Drepo.id=$REPO_ID -Drepo.login=$REPO_LOGIN -Drepo.pwd=$REPO_PWD clean install