mvn deploy over ssh prompts for password

[Sven Anderson]

Hi,

I'm having problems getting maven 2.0.9 deploy goal to work over ssh. Every time I trigger mvn deploy I'm being asked to provide password (about 6 times for each deploy). The client pc is a windows XP machine and the repository is running on a linux server. My settings.xml looks like this

<server>
<id>snapshots<id>
<username>tester</username>
<password>12345</password>
</server>

and my pom.xml has the following entry

<distributionManagement>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>snapshots</id>
<name>Snapshot</name>
<url>scp://192.168.1.3/var/www/repo/snapshots</url>;
</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>

Unfortunately I haven't got direct control over the server so I don't really know how ssh is configured (if the problem is on that end). I ran a similar test at home where the client pc was a winXP and I installed a default installation of openSSH on a debian linux box without changing any settings. I didn't have any problems running mvn deploy from the client machine which makes me wonder if something needs to be configured on the server side.

Thanks
S

[Tim Holloway]

ssh uses Unix/Linux shell accounts, so the userid and password are as defined for interactive users. About the only gotcha would be if the account had been configured on the server in a way that denied shell logins - for example if the "login shell" assigned to the account was the "/bin/false" program instead of "/bin/sh".

[Sven Anderson]

Thanks for your reply,

I'll need to check with sysadmin tomorrow. I can run putty and winscp from my computer but maybe that hasn't got anything to do with how the linux user accounts been set up in relation to my problem with mvn deploy.

First I wasn't sure if maven was reading the local settings.xml file but after adding invalid xml syntax to the settings.xml maven complained.

Thanks