Which maven settings.xml file will sudo use?

Question

I have a shell script which runs a maven build task. When the script is run, it is run as the sudo user. However, I am behind a proxy and therefore need to specify proxy details inside my ~/.m2/settings.xml file. This is currently in the main user's home directory.

What I've found is that when this script is run as sudo, it's not picking up the settings.xml file from the other user's ~/.m2/settings.xml file.

How can I specify these settings for the sudo/root user? Should I just put this settings.xml inside the root user's home directory as well?

Answer 1

When you use sudo, I think user.home property changes and that is why this,

You can explicitly specify settings file by

 -s

for example

mvn clean compile -s /home/foo/.m2/settings.xml

Answer 2

If all users on the machine will always need the proxy settings you can simply add them to the global settings.xml file.

This can normally be found at $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml.