Accessing an Artifactory/Maven Repo that requires basic-auth

Question

I have an Artifactory repo that sits behind basic authentication. How would I configure the settings.xml to allow access?

<mirrors>
 <mirror>
  <id>artifactory</id>
  <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
  <url>https://myserver.example.com/artifactory/repo&lt;/url&gt;
  <name>Artifactory</name>
 </mirror>
</mirrors>
<servers>
 <!--
  This server configuration gives your personal username/password for
  artifactory. Note that the server id must match that given in the
  mirrors section.
 -->
 <server>
  <id>Artifactory</id>
  <username>someArtifactoryUser</username>
  <password>someArtifactoryPassword</password>
 </server>

So server tag is the user credentials for the artifactory user, but I also need to provide another user/password to get through the basic-auth. Where would I put that?!?

Answer 1

The username and password go in the server settings as you have them. I think your problem is that you've specified the server by its name (Artifactory), rather than its id (artifactory).

I'd recommend you put the server settings in your user settings rather than the global settings. You can also encrypt the password in Maven 2.1.0+, see the mini guide for details.

Update: What version of Artifactory are you using? There is a discussion and corresponding issue that basic-auth fails. This has apparently been fixed in 2.0.7 and 2.1.0.

From the discussion, it seems that a workaround is to pass the properties via the command line, e.g.

-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dproxy.username=... -Dhttp.password=...

Update: To let your Maven installation connect through a firewall, you'll need to configure the proxy section of the settings.xml, see this question for some pointers on doing that.

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Update2: There are additional properties you can set in the server settings, see this blog for some background. I've not had an opportunity to test this, but from the blog and related http wagon javadoc, it appears you can set authenticationInfo on the server settings, something like this:

<server>  
  <id>Artifactory</id>
  <username>someArtifactoryUser</username>
  <password>someArtifactoryPassword</password>
  <configuration>  
    <authenticationInfo>
      <userName>auth-user</userName>
      <password>auth-pass</password>
    </authenticationInfo>
  </configuration>  
</server>