Question

I’m trying to deploy an artifact to a remote repository accessible via scp and having a problem with repeated password prompts. My settings.xml contains this fragment:

<servers>
    <server>
        <id>example.com</id>
        <username>myusername</username>
        <password>mypassword</password>
        <filePermissions>664</filePermissions>
        <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions>
        <configuration>
        </configuration>
    </server>
</servers>

The command line interaction looks like this:

$ mvn deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=ojdbc6.jar -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc6 -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=11.2.0.1.0 -DrepositoryId=example.com -Durl=scp://example.com/maven2/
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'deploy'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Default Project
[INFO]    task-segment: [deploy:deploy-file] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [deploy:deploy-file {execution: default-cli}]
Keyboard interactive required, supplied password is ignored
Password: : mypassword
Uploading: scp://example.com/maven2//com/oracle/ojdbc6/11.2.0.1.0/ojdbc6-11.2.0.1.0.jar
2061K uploaded  (ojdbc6-11.2.0.1.0.jar)
[INFO] Retrieving previous metadata from example.com
Keyboard interactive required, supplied password is ignored
Password: : mypassword
[INFO] repository metadata for: 'artifact com.oracle:ojdbc6' could not be found on repository: example.com, so will be created
[INFO] Uploading repository metadata for: 'artifact com.oracle:ojdbc6'
Keyboard interactive required, supplied password is ignored
Password: : mypassword
[INFO] Uploading project information for ojdbc6 11.2.0.1.0
Keyboard interactive required, supplied password is ignored
Password: : mypassword
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 30 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Sep 02 13:03:33 CEST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 5M/90M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are several problems here:

1. I’m prompted for a password even though it is is specified in the settings.xml
2. The password is echoed back on the console
3. It does not remember the password and instead asks me 4 times.

How can I configure maven so it either uses a password from settings.xml or asks me once without echoing my password to the screen?

Edit: This was on Ubuntu linux, a collegue just reproduced the same problem on Windows XP. As mounting the repository to a local path is not an option on Windows, I’m still looking for a solution.

Answer 1

We have since installed Nexus as an repository manager and are using the web interface to upload third party jars.