Maven doesn't recognize my user profile and looks for .m2 in another location

Question

I've inherited a machine from another person, and maven thinks I'm a different user. This is me:

C:\> echo %USERPROFILE%
C:\Users\awesomeuser

Although maven thinks I'm administrator and fails to create the .m2 folder there.

[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[DEBUG] Reading global settings from c:\apps\tools\apache-maven-3.1.0\bin\..\conf\settings.xml
[DEBUG] Reading user settings from C:\Users\Administrator\.m2\settings.xml
[DEBUG] Using local repository at C:\Users\Administrator\.m2\repository
[ERROR] Could not create local repository at C:\Users\Administrator\.m2\repository -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.repository.LocalRepositoryNotAccessibleException: Could not create local repository at C:\Users\Administrator\.m2\repository

Any ideas how to get maven to recognize I'm awesomeuser not Administrator?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what environmental variable is causing Maven to look at the wrong home directory.

However, you can set per execution with -s or --settings option to control where to look for the settings.xml.

Alternatively you can set it globally by updating m2.conf in your \bin directory. It sets the default user home.

EDIT:

I did some more research and Maven uses the Java property user.home. It looks like sometimes it can be wrong and not match your user profile.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4787931

Answer 2

Turns out that my problem is more of this nature: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2134775/237925. I have tons of references to C:\Users\Administrator in the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders