[MSITE-435] Plugin running in batch mode fails to upload site via scp due to failure to resolve credentials from settings.xml

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-7
• Component/s: site:deploy
• Environment: software platform
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Abraham Kiggundu
• Created: 20/Nov/09 08:40
• Updated: 20/Nov/09 08:58
• Resolved: 20/Nov/09 08:58

Description

When the site:deploy plugin is ran in interactive mode it prompts you for your username and password. On a Hudson build server we run maven in batch mode.

The command line below:
mvn site:deploy --batch-mode

will always fail the build due to the following error
Cannot connect. Reason: Auth cancel

the only temporary workaround to fix this at the moment is to have the user credentials in your pom as below
<site>
<id>docs</id>
<name>Release Documentation Website</name>
<url>scp://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@[MACHINE]/

{location uri}/</url>
</site>

In contradiction the distribution management works fine with the following pom setup
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>id</id>
<name>the id</name>
<url>scp://[USER]@[MACHINE]/{location uri}

/</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>

and never prompts you for user credentials always grabing them from the settings .xml