[MDEPLOY-129] Need a way to specify repository credentials securely for deploy operations

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.4, 2.5
• Component/s: deploy:deploy-file
• Labels: contributers-welcome documentation
• Environment: All
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Rick Herrick
• Created: 23/Feb/11 09:36
• Updated: 27/May/13 16:22
• Resolved: 27/May/13 16:22

Description

Currently, credentials for performing a deployment must be specified in the settings.xml. However, if a Maven repository is set to use LDAP for its authentication mechanism, this means exposing domain security credentials in plaintext in a static file on the hard drive and is extremely insecure (as specified in the documentation: "Unfortunately, Maven doesn't currently support hashed or encrypted passwords in the settings.xml"). This is simply not workable in a secure environment, e.g. government, defense, financial, etc.

Instead there should be an option to provide these credentials on the command line or using hash or encryption algorithms.