Maven: Trying to Deploy with credentials in settings.xml file

Question

This seemed to be working last week and now it doesn't.

• We use Artifactory as our Maven repository.
• I am deploying a jar and pom using the deploy:deploy-file goal
• Our Artifactory repository requires authentication to deploy.

I can deploy to the repository by embedding my credentials in the server URL on the command line:

 $ mvn deploy:deploy-file \      -Durl=http://deployer:[email protected]/artifactory/ext-release-local \      -Dfile=crypto.jar \      -DpomFile=pom.xml \      -Did=VeggieCorp   yadda...yadda...yadda...   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------   [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------   [INFO] Total time: 0.962s   [INFO] Finished at: Mon Aug 20 10:06:04 CDT 2012   [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/118M   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

However, that whole deployment gets logged and my credentials would be visible in the log. Therefore, I want to be able to deploy without my credentials on the command line. To do that, I have a $HOME/.m2/settings.xml file:

<settings>     <proxies>         <proxy>             <active>true</active>             <protocol>http</protocol>             <host>proxy.veggiecorp.com</host>             <port>3128</port>             <nonProxyHosts>*.veggiecorp.com</nonProxyHosts>         </proxy>     </proxies>     <servers>         <server>             <id>VeggieCorp</id>             <username>deployer</username>             <password>swordfish</password>         </server>     </servers>     <profiles>         <profile>             <id>VeggieCorp</id>             <activation>                  <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>             </activation>             <repositories>                 <repository>                     <id>VeggieCorp</id>                     <name>VeggieCorp's Maven Repository</name>                     <releases>                         <enabled>true</enabled>                         <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>                         <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>                     </releases>                     <snapshots>                         <enabled>false</enabled>                         <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>                         <checksumPolicy>warn</checksumPolicy>                     </snapshots>                     <url>http://repo.veggiecorp.com/artifactory/ext-release-local</url>                     <layout>default</layout>                 </repository>             </repositories>         </profile>     </profiles>     <activeProfiles>         <activeProfile>VeggieCorp</activeProfile>     </activeProfiles> </settings> 

Now, I'll try deploying again, but without putting the user name and password in the URL:

 $ mvn deploy:deploy-file \      -Durl=http://repo.veggiecorp.com/artifactory/ext-release-local \      -Dfile=crypto.jar \      -DpomFile=pom.xml \      -Did=VeggieCorp yadda...yadda...yadda [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.751s [INFO] Finished at: Mon Aug 20 10:17:15 CDT 2012 [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/119M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy-  file (default-cli) on project crypto:  Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact       com.veggiecorp:crypto:jar:2.0.0 from/to remote-repository      (http://mvn.veggiecorp.com/artifactory/ext-release-local):     Failed to transfer file:     http://mvn.veggiecorp.com/artifactory/ext-release-local/com/veggiecorp/crypto/2.0.0/crypto-2.0.0.jar.     Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized. -> [Help 1] 

(I've reformatted the output to make it easier to see. I'm getting a 401 "Unauthorized" error)

So, what am I doing wrong? Why can't I use my .settings.xml file to do my credentials? The proxy part does work because it can download the needed plugins from the main Maven repository.

Answer 1

You need to provide the repositoryId=VeggieCorp (not id) property so that maven knows from which <server> configuration it has to read the credentials.

$ mvn deploy:deploy-file \  -Durl=http://repo.veggiecorp.com/artifactory/ext-release-local \  -Dfile=crypto.jar \  -DpomFile=pom.xml \  -DrepositoryId=VeggieCorp 

See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-file-mojo.html