How to pass in credentials when connecting to sonatype nexus (anonymous login disabled)?

Question

In eclipse, the m2eclipse plugin will prompt me for my credentials when I'm building a maven2 project. And it compiles fine.

But if I now try to run "mvn install" from the command line, I get an artifact not found error. How do I add the username/password into my pom.xml in order to solve this problem.

Answer 1

Which username password you talking about? If its the username defined in nexus repository then you can define in settings.xml where you defined the nexus repository.

<servers>
  <server>
    <id>releases</id>
    <username>xxxxxxxxx</username>
    <password>yyyyyyyy</password>
  </server>
</servers>

Answer 2

As far as I know there are no maven xml tags to configure that. Of course you could try prefixing the domain name with username and password like so:

http://username:password@yournexusserver/..

Answer 3

Maven will use the entries defined in your settings for the auth when prompted by Nexus. Just enter a server entry with the same Id that you are using for your repository (or mirror if using one), and that's all.