Why am I getting a 401 Unauthorized error in Maven

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Why am I getting a  401 Unauthorized  error in Maven   Here s the error I m getting when calling mvn deploy  full logs at the bottom     INFO  BUILD FAILURE  ERROR  Failed to execute goal org apache maven plugins maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy  on project xbnjava  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized  - gt   Help 1   According to this sonatype support page       If you are receiving a 401 it is because maven is sending the wrong login credentials  or no credentials at all     Below are the steps I ve taken  below that are my full settings xml and pom xml files  and below that are the full logs from mvn deploy and mvn deploy -e   Any ideas would be appreciated  I am just hitting wall after wall with Maven     I followed sonatype s checklist when receiving a 401 error      Checklist item 1  Make sure your username password is correct by logging into the Nexus UI  If curl is installed on your machine  you can try deploying an artifact with       I successfully logged in and out of the sonatype org website  using the user pass in settings xml  I attempted to use curl to manually deploy an artifact  with the command    C   curl -u MY SONATYPE DOT COM USERNAME MY SONATYPE DOT COM PASSWORD https   oss sonatype org content repositories snapshots com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2-SNAPSHOT xbnjava-0 1 2-20140716 224928-1 pom --request PUT --data  pom xml  but got this error   Warning  Couldn t read data from file  pom xml   this makes an empty POST  curl   60  SSL certificate problem  verify that the CA cert is OK  Details  error 14090086 SSL routines SSL3 GET SERVER CERTIFICATE certificate verify failed More details here  http   curl haxx se docs sslcerts html  curl performs SSL certificate verification by default  using a  bundle   of Certificate Authority  CA  public keys  CA certs   If the default  bundle file isn t adequate  you can specify an alternate file  using the --cacert option  If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in  the bundle  the certificate verification probably failed due to a  problem with the certificate  it might be expired  or the name might  not match the domain name in the URL   If you d like to turn off curl s verification of the certificate  use  the -k  or --insecure  option    I ran it again with the -k option  and this time got only this   Couldn t read data from file  pom xml   this makes an empty POST    I ve never used curl before  so I m at a loss on what to do with this information      Checklist item 2  If there is no error output  ensure your user privileges are correctly configured on the server   Make sure to drop the repo you just created    I don t know what  drop  means  I believe my privileges are properly installed  as I received this message from sonatype    Configuration has been prepared  now you can  Deploy snapshot artifacts into repository https   oss sonatype org content repositories snapshots Deploy release artifacts into the staging repository https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 Promote staged artifacts into repository  Releases  Download snapshot and release artifacts from group https   oss sonatype org content groups public Download snapshot  release and staged artifacts from staging group https   oss sonatype org content groups staging   and I have successfully put these items onto the server via mvn deploy in the past couple days   The project s settings        Checklist item 3  Make sure you have configured a server in settings xml and that the server id is identical to the distribution repository id in pom xml     In settings xml  settings servers server id equals ossrh In pom xml  distributionManagement snapshotRepository id equals ossrh    full files are at the bottom      Checklist item 4  Make sure your settings xml is in the correct place  normally it   s     m2 settings xml    You can check this by running mvn help effective-settings    According to Maven s settings reference  settings xml must be in one of two locations    The Maven install   M2 HOME conf settings xml A user   s install    user home   m2 settings xml   Here s my setup    settings xml  C  applications programming apache-maven-3 2 2 conf settings xml M2 HOME is C  applications programming apache-maven-3 2 2   Output for mvn help effective-settings    C  applications utilities curl   INFO  Scanning for projects     INFO   INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Building Maven Stub Project  No POM  1  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO   INFO  --- maven-help-plugin 2 2 effective-settings  default-cli    standalone-pom ---  INFO  Effective user-specific configuration settings    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt   lt  -- Generated by Maven Help Plugin on 2014-07-18T12 48 19                  -- gt   lt  -- See  http   maven apache org plugins maven-help-plugin                 -- gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt    lt  --                                                                        -- gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt   lt  -- Effective Settings for  jeffy  on  kermit-the-frog                     -- gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt   lt  --                                                                        -- gt    lt settings xmlns  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance  xsi sc hemaLocation  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 1 0 http   maven apache org xsd settings-1 1 0 xsd  gt     lt localRepository xmlns  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 1 0  gt C  Users jeffy  m2 repository lt  localRepository  gt     lt servers xmlns  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 1 0  gt       lt server gt         lt username gt MY SONATYPE DOT COM USERNAME lt  username gt         lt password gt     lt  password gt         lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt       lt  server gt     lt  servers gt     lt pluginGroups xmlns  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 1 0  gt       lt pluginGroup gt org apache maven plugins lt  pluginGroup gt       lt pluginGroup gt org codehaus mojo lt  pluginGroup gt     lt  pluginGroups gt   lt  settings gt    INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  BUILD SUCCESS  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Total time  2 310 s  INFO  Finished at  2014-07-18T12 48 19-04 00  INFO  Final Memory  7M 17M  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------      Checklist item 5  If the server is using https but the URL in your POM is http  you might get 401 as well    I don t understand which url it s referring to      Checklist item 6  Use the latest version of Maven  as there is a known issue regarding 401  MNG-4469   I am using the latest version    C   mvn -version Apache Maven 3 2 2  45f7c06d68e745d05611f7fd14efb6594181933e  2014-06-17T09 51 42-04 00  Maven home  C  applications programming apache-maven-3 2 2 Java version  1 7 0 51  vendor  Oracle Corporation Java home  C  applications programming jdk 7 51 jre Default locale  en US  platform encoding  Cp1252 OS name   windows 7   version   6 1   arch   x86   family   windows    ------------------  Full settings xml and pom xml files   Full logs for mvn deploy and mvn deploy -e below   settings xml    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt settings xmlns  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 0 0       xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance       xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org SETTINGS 1 0 0 http   maven apache org xsd settings-1 0 0 xsd  gt      lt servers gt        lt server gt          lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt          lt username gt MY SONATYPE DOT COM USERNAME lt  username gt          lt password gt MY SONATYPE DOT COM PASSWORD lt  password gt        lt  server gt      lt  servers gt       lt pluginGroups gt  lt  pluginGroups gt      lt proxies gt  lt  proxies gt      lt mirrors gt  lt  mirrors gt      lt profiles gt  lt  profiles gt   lt  settings gt    pom xml    lt project xmlns  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance  xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0 http   maven apache org maven-v4 0 0 xsd  gt      lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt      lt groupId gt com github aliteralmind lt  groupId gt      lt artifactId gt xbnjava lt  artifactId gt      lt packaging gt pom lt  packaging gt      lt version gt 0 1 2 lt  version gt      lt name gt XBN-Java lt  name gt      lt url gt https   github com aliteralmind xbnjava lt  url gt      lt inceptionYear gt 2014 lt  inceptionYear gt      lt organization gt         lt name gt Jeff Epstein lt  name gt      lt  organization gt      lt description gt XBN-Java is a collection of generically-useful backend  server side  non-GUI  programming utilities  featuring RegexReplacer and FilteredLineIterator  XBN-Java is the foundation of Codelet  http   codelet aliteralmind com   lt  description gt       lt parent gt         lt groupId gt org sonatype oss lt  groupId gt         lt artifactId gt oss-parent lt  artifactId gt         lt version gt 7 lt  version gt      lt  parent gt       lt licenses gt         lt license gt            lt name gt Lesser General Public License  LGPL  version 3 0 lt  name gt            lt url gt https   www gnu org licenses lgpl-3 0 txt lt  url gt         lt  license gt         lt license gt            lt name gt Apache Software License  ASL  version 2 0 lt  name gt            lt url gt http   www apache org licenses LICENSE-2 0 txt lt  url gt         lt  license gt      lt  licenses gt       lt developers gt         lt developer gt            lt name gt Jeff Epstein lt  name gt            lt email gt aliteralmind-github yahoo com lt  email gt            lt roles gt               lt role gt Lead Developer lt  role gt            lt  roles gt         lt  developer gt      lt  developers gt       lt issueManagement gt         lt system gt GitHub Issue Tracker lt  system gt         lt url gt https   github com aliteralmind xbnjava issues lt  url gt      lt  issueManagement gt       lt distributionManagement gt         lt snapshotRepository gt            lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt            lt url gt https   oss sonatype org content repositories snapshots lt  url gt         lt  snapshotRepository gt      lt  distributionManagement gt       lt scm gt         lt connection gt scm git git github com aliteralmind xbnjava git lt  connection gt         lt url gt scm git git github com aliteralmind xbnjava git lt  url gt         lt developerConnection gt scm git git github com aliteralmind xbnjava git lt  developerConnection gt      lt  scm gt       lt properties gt         lt java version gt 1 7 lt  java version gt         lt jarprefix gt R  jeffy programming build    project artifactId -  project version  download   project artifactId -  project version  lt  jarprefix gt      lt  properties gt   lt  --    lt profiles gt       lt profile gt         lt id gt default-tools jar lt  id gt         lt activation gt           lt property gt             lt name gt java vendor lt  name gt             lt value gt Sun Microsystems Inc  lt  value gt           lt  property gt         lt  activation gt         lt dependencies gt           lt dependency gt             lt groupId gt com sun lt  groupId gt             lt artifactId gt tools lt  artifactId gt             lt version gt 1 4 2 lt  version gt             lt scope gt system lt  scope gt             lt systemPath gt   java home     lib tools jar lt  systemPath gt           lt  dependency gt         lt  dependencies gt       lt  profile gt     lt  profiles gt   -- gt      lt build gt         lt plugins gt            lt plugin gt               lt groupId gt org codehaus mojo lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt build-helper-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt               lt version gt 1 8 lt  version gt               lt executions gt                  lt execution gt                     lt id gt attach-artifacts lt  id gt                     lt phase gt package lt  phase gt                     lt goals gt                        lt goal gt attach-artifact lt  goal gt                     lt  goals gt                     lt configuration gt                        lt artifacts gt                           lt artifact gt                              lt file gt   jarprefix -all jar lt  file gt                              lt type gt jar lt  type gt                           lt  artifact gt                        lt  artifacts gt                     lt  configuration gt                  lt  execution gt               lt  executions gt            lt  plugin gt         lt  plugins gt      lt  build gt       lt profiles gt         lt  --       This profile will sign the JAR file  sources file  and javadocs file using the GPG key on the local machine        See  https   docs sonatype org display Repository How To Generate PGP Signatures With Maven       -- gt         lt profile gt            lt id gt release-sign-artifacts lt  id gt            lt activation gt               lt property gt                  lt name gt release lt  name gt                  lt value gt true lt  value gt               lt  property gt            lt  activation gt         lt  profile gt      lt  profiles gt   lt  project gt    ------------------  Full logs for mvn deploy and mvn deploy -e  mvn deploy output    INFO  Scanning for projects     INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Building XBN-Java 0 1 2  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  --- maven-enforcer-plugin 1 0 enforce  enforce-maven    xbnjava ---  INFO  --- build-helper-maven-plugin 1 8 attach-artifact  attach-artifacts    xbnjava ---  INFO  --- maven-install-plugin 2 4 install  default-install    xbnjava ---  INFO  Installing R  jeffy programming sandbox z  for git commit only xbnjava pom xml to C  Users jeffy  m2 repository com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  INFO  Installing R  jeffy programming build xbnjava-0 1 2 download xbnjava-0 1 2-all jar to C  Users jeffy  m2 repository com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 jar  INFO  --- maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy    xbnjava --- Uploading  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom 2 6 KB 4 6 KB 6 6 KB    Failure section     INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  BUILD FAILURE  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Total time  3 204 s  INFO  Finished at  2014-07-18T11 25 17-04 00  INFO  Final Memory  7M 17M  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  ERROR  Failed to execute goal org apache maven plugins maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy  on project xbnjava  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized  - gt   Help 1   ERROR   ERROR  To see the full stack trace of the errors  re-run Maven with the -e switch   ERROR  Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging   ERROR   ERROR  For more information about the errors and possible solutions  please read the following articles   ERROR   Help 1  http   cwiki apache org confluence display MAVEN MojoExecutionException   mvn deploy -e output    INFO  Error stacktraces are turned on   INFO  Scanning for projects     INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Building XBN-Java 0 1 2  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  --- maven-enforcer-plugin 1 0 enforce  enforce-maven    xbnjava ---  INFO  --- build-helper-maven-plugin 1 8 attach-artifact  attach-artifacts    xbnjava ---  INFO  --- maven-install-plugin 2 4 install  default-install    xbnjava ---  INFO  Installing R  jeffy programming sandbox z  for git commit only xbnjava pom xml to C  Users jeffy  m2 repository com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  INFO  Installing R  jeffy programming build xbnjava-0 1 2 download xbnjava-0 1 2-all jar to C  Users jeffy  m2 repository com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 jar  INFO  --- maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy    xbnjava --- Uploading  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom 2 6 KB 4 6 KB 6 6 KB    Failure section     INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  BUILD FAILURE  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Total time  3 492 s  INFO  Finished at  2014-07-18T11 25 37-04 00  INFO  Final Memory  7M 17M  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  ERROR  Failed to execute goal org apache maven plugins maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy  on project xbnjava  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized  - gt   Help 1  org apache maven lifecycle LifecycleExecutionException  Failed to execute goal org apache maven plugins maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy  on project xbnjava  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized     at org apache maven lifecycle internal MojoExecutor execute MojoExecutor java 216     at org apache maven lifecycle internal MojoExecutor execute MojoExecutor java 153     at org apache maven lifecycle internal MojoExecutor execute MojoExecutor java 145     at org apache maven lifecycle internal LifecycleModuleBuilder buildProject LifecycleModuleBuilder java 116     at org apache maven lifecycle internal LifecycleModuleBuilder buildProject LifecycleModuleBuilder java 80     at org apache maven lifecycle internal builder singlethreaded SingleThreadedBuilder build SingleThreadedBuilder java 51     at org apache maven lifecycle internal LifecycleStarter execute LifecycleStarter java 120     at org apache maven DefaultMaven doExecute DefaultMaven java 347     at org apache maven DefaultMaven execute DefaultMaven java 154     at org apache maven cli MavenCli execute MavenCli java 584     at org apache maven cli MavenCli doMain MavenCli java 213     at org apache maven cli MavenCli main MavenCli java 157     at sun reflect NativeMethodAccessorImpl invoke0 Native Method     at sun reflect NativeMethodAccessorImpl invoke NativeMethodAccessorImpl java 57     at sun reflect DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl invoke DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl java 43     at java lang reflect Method invoke Method java 606     at org codehaus plexus classworlds launcher Launcher launchEnhanced Launcher java 289     at org codehaus plexus classworlds launcher Launcher launch Launcher java 229     at org codehaus plexus classworlds launcher Launcher mainWithExitCode Launcher java 415     at org codehaus plexus classworlds launcher Launcher main Launcher java 356  Caused by  org apache maven plugin MojoExecutionException  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized     at org apache maven plugin deploy DeployMojo execute DeployMojo java 193     at org apache maven plugin DefaultBuildPluginManager executeMojo DefaultBuildPluginManager java 132     at org apache maven lifecycle internal MojoExecutor execute MojoExecutor java 208         19 more Caused by  org apache maven artifact deployer ArtifactDeploymentException  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized     at org apache maven artifact deployer DefaultArtifactDeployer deploy DefaultArtifactDeployer java 143     at org apache maven plugin deploy AbstractDeployMojo deploy AbstractDeployMojo java 167     at org apache maven plugin deploy DeployMojo execute DeployMojo java 149         21 more Caused by  org eclipse aether deployment DeploymentException  Failed to deploy artifacts  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized     at org eclipse aether internal impl DefaultDeployer deploy DefaultDeployer java 337     at org eclipse aether internal impl DefaultDeployer deploy DefaultDeployer java 268     at org eclipse aether internal impl DefaultRepositorySystem deploy DefaultRepositorySystem java 413     at org apache maven artifact deployer DefaultArtifactDeployer deploy DefaultArtifactDeployer java 139         23 more Caused by  org eclipse aether transfer ArtifactTransferException  Could not transfer artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava pom 0 1 2 from to sonatype-nexus-staging  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2    Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized     at org eclipse aether connector wagon WagonRepositoryConnector 6 wrap WagonRepositoryConnector java 1016     at org eclipse aether connector wagon WagonRepositoryConnector 6 wrap WagonRepositoryConnector java 1004     at org eclipse aether connector wagon WagonRepositoryConnector PutTask run WagonRepositoryConnector java 895     at org eclipse aether connector wagon WagonRepositoryConnector put WagonRepositoryConnector java 522     at org eclipse aether internal impl DefaultDeployer deploy DefaultDeployer java 331         26 more Caused by  org apache maven wagon TransferFailedException  Failed to transfer file  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 2 xbnjava-0 1 2 pom  Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized     at org apache maven wagon providers http AbstractHttpClientWagon put AbstractHttpClientWagon java 573     at org apache maven wagon providers http AbstractHttpClientWagon put AbstractHttpClientWagon java 493     at org apache maven wagon providers http AbstractHttpClientWagon put AbstractHttpClientWagon java 474     at org apache maven wagon providers http AbstractHttpClientWagon put AbstractHttpClientWagon java 454     at org eclipse aether connector wagon WagonRepositoryConnector PutTask run WagonRepositoryConnector java 871         28 more  ERROR   ERROR  Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging   ERROR   ERROR  For more information about the errors and possible solutions  please read the following articles   ERROR   Help 1  http   cwiki apache org confluence display MAVEN MojoExecutionException

User · Answer

It could be caused by wrong version  you can double check the parent s version and lib s version  to make sure they re correct and not duplicated  I ve experienced same problem

User · Answer

in my case  after encrypting password I forgot to put settings-security xml into    m2

User · Answer

just change in settings xml these as aliteralmind says        lt server gt         lt id gt nexus-snapshots lt  id gt         lt username gt MY SONATYPE DOT COM USERNAME lt  username gt         lt password gt MY SONATYPE DOT COM PASSWORD lt  password gt        lt  server gt    you probably need to get the username   password from sonatype dot com

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If you were like me  running maven compile deploy from eclipse s maven run configuration  the issue could be related to eclipse s own embedded maven as described in https   bugs eclipse org bugs show bug cgi id 562847 The workaround is to run mvn compile deploy from CLI such as bash  or to NOT use embedded maven in the eclipse s maven run configuration  and add an external maven  mine is in  usr share mvn   and voila  it ll say BUILD SUCCESS

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Had similar issue  Had to pin the maven deploy plugin to specific version in pom xml    lt plugin gt       lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt maven-deploy-plugin lt  artifactId gt        lt version gt 2 8 2 lt  version gt   lt  plugin gt    This version is what broke my builds    INFO  --- maven-deploy-plugin 3 0 0-M1 deploy  default-cli    dbl ---

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I had put a not encrypted password in the settings.xml .

I tested the call with curl

curl -u username:password http://url/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/com/myproject/api/1.0-SNAPSHOT/api-1.0-20160128.114425-1.jar --request PUT --data target/api-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

and I got the error:

{
  "errors" : [ {
    "status" : 401,
    "message" : "Artifactory configured to accept only encrypted passwords but received a clear text password."
  } ]
}

I retrieved my encrypted password clicking on my artifactory profile and unlocking it.

User · Answer

I ve had similar errors when trying to deploy a Gradle artefact to a Nexus Sonatype repository   You will get a 401 Unauthorized error if you supply the wrong credentials  password etc    You also get an error  and off the top of my head is also a 401  if you try to publish something to a releases repository and that version already exists in the repository   So you might find that by publishing from the command line it works  but then when you do it from a script it fails  because it didn t exist in the repository the first time around    Either publish using a different version number  or delete the old artefact on the server and republish   The SNAPSHOTS repository  as opposed to the releases repository  allows you to overwrite a similarly numbered version  but your version number should have  -SNAPSHOT  at the end of it

User · Answer

I was dealing with this running Artifactory version 5.8.4. The "Set Me Up" function would generate settings.xml as follows:

<servers>
    <server>
      <username>${security.getCurrentUsername()}</username>
      <password>${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!"AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ"}</password>
      <id>central</id>
    </server>
    <server>
      <username>${security.getCurrentUsername()}</username>
      <password>${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!"AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ"}</password>
      <id>snapshots</id>
    </server>
</servers>

After using the mvn deploy -e -X switch, I noticed the credentials were not accurate. I removed the ${security.getCurrentUsername()} and replaced it with my username and removed ${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!""} and just put my encrypted password which worked for me:

<servers>
    <server>
      <username>username</username>
      <password>AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ</password>
      <id>central</id>
    </server>
    <server>
      <username>username</username>
      <password>AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ</password>
      <id>snapshots</id>
    </server>
</servers>

Hope this helps!

User · Answer

I got the same error when trying to deploy to a Artifactory repository, the following solved the issue for me:

Go to the repository setting in artifactory and enable the point "Force Maven Authentication" and the 401 "Unauthorized" error should be gone. (Of course you need to supply your credentials in the settings.xml file at best in plain text to prevent issues)

I guess by default, even through you supply the right credentials in the settings.xml file, they don't get used and you get the Unauthorized exception.

User · Answer

I got 401 error when used mvn gpg sign-and-deploy-file command and the reason was that    lt maven home gt  conf settings xml   To get   lt maven home gt   run  mvn --version    for example   usr local Cellar maven 3 6 3 1 libexec conf settings xml  does not include  lt server gt  lt  server gt  tag body that you can get via LogIn to Sonatype - gt  Profile - gt  User Token - gt  Access User Token   https   oss sonatype org  profile User 20Token    it will generate something like  lt server gt     lt id gt   server  lt  id gt     lt username gt  name  lt  username gt     lt password gt  pass  lt  password gt   lt  server gt     where    server   is the same as  -DrepositoryId  parameter in  mvn gpg sign-and-deploy-file  command

User · Answer

One of the reasons for this error is when repositoryId is not specified or specified incorrectly. As mentioned already it should be the same as in section in settings.xml. Couple of hints... Run mvn with -e -X options and check the debug output. It will tell you which repositoryId it is using:

[DEBUG]   (f) offline = false
[DEBUG]   (f) packaging = exe
[DEBUG]   (f) pomFile = c:\temp\build-test\pom.xml
[DEBUG]   (f) project = MavenProject: org.apache.maven:standalone-pom:1 @ 
[DEBUG]   (f) repositoryId = remote-repository
[DEBUG]   (f) repositoryLayout = default
[DEBUG]   (f) retryFailedDeploymentCount = 1
[DEBUG]   (f) uniqueVersion = true
[DEBUG]   (f) updateReleaseInfo = false
[DEBUG]   (f) url = https://nexus.url.blah.com/...
[DEBUG]   (f) version = 13.1
[DEBUG] -- end configuration --

In this case it uses the default value "remote-repository", which means that something went wrong.

Apparently I have specified -DrepositoryID (note ID in capital) instead of -DrepositoryId.

User · Answer

This is the official explanation from sonatype nexus team about 401 - Unauthorized

I recommend you to read Troubleshooting Artifact Deployment Failures for more information.

Code 401 - Unauthorized

Either no login credentials were sent with the request, or login credentials which are invalid were sent. Checking the "authorization and authentication" system feed in the Nexus UI can help narrow this down. If credentials were sent there will be an entry in the feed.

If no credentials were sent this is likely due to a mis-match between the id in your pom's distributionManagement section and your settings.xml's server section that holds the login credentials.

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Also had 401 s from Nexus  Having tried all the suggestions above and more without success I eventually found that it was a Jenkins setting that was in error   In the Jenkins configuration for the failing project  we have a section in the  Post Build  actions entitled  Deploy Artifacts To Maven Repository   This has a  Repository ID  field which was set to the wrong value  It has to be the same as the repository ID in settings xml for Jenkins to read the user and password fields       lt servers gt       lt server gt         lt id gt snapshot-repository lt  id gt    lt  -- must match this -- gt         lt username gt deployment lt  username gt         lt password gt password lt  password gt       lt  server gt     lt  servers gt

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Failed to transfer file    http   mcpappxxxp dev chx s com 18080 artifactory mcprepo-release-local Shop loyalty-telluride 01 16 03 loyalty-tell-01 16 03 jar    Return code is  401  ReasonPhrase  Unauthorized  -   Help 1    Solution   In this case you need to change the version in the pom file  and try to use a new version   Here 01 16 03 already exist so it was failing and when i have tried with the 01 16 04 version the job went successful

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In Nexus version 3 13 0-01  the id in the POM s distributionManagement repository section MUST match the servers server id and  mirrors mirror id in your maven settings xml  I just replaced nexus v3 10 4  with 3 13 0-01  and it wasn t needed to match for 3 10 4

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There are two setting xml in windows      MAVEN HOME  conf   userprofile   m2     If  userprofile   m2 setting xml takes effect  maven will not access  MAVEN HOME  conf setting xml

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Faced same issue  In my case the reason was pretty stupid - github token I used for authorization was issued for the organization that doesn t own the repo I tried to publish into  So check repo title and ownership

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Some users may have entered the email address instead of the user name by mistake  This may happen unconsciously when the name in the email address is the same as the user name

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As stated in  John s answer  the fact that there is already a 0 1 2-SNAPSHOT  interfered with my new non-SNAPSHOT version 0 1 2  Since the 401 Unauthorized error is nebulous and unhelpful--and is normally associated to user pass problems--it s no surprise that I was unable to figure this out on my own   Changing the version to 0 1 3 brings me back to my original error    ERROR  Failed to execute goal org apache maven plugins maven-install-plugin 2 4 install  default-install  on project xbnjava  Failed to install artifact com github aliteralmind xbnjava jar 0 1 3  R  jeffy programming build xbnjava-0 1 3 download xbnjava-0 1 3-all jar  The system cannot find the path specified  - gt   Help 1    A sonatype support person also recommended that I remove the  lt parent gt  block from my POM  it s only there because it s in the one from ez-vcard  which is what I started with  and replace my  lt distributionManagement gt  block with   lt distributionManagement gt     lt snapshotRepository gt       lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt       lt url gt https   oss sonatype org content repositories snapshots lt  url gt     lt  snapshotRepository gt     lt repository gt       lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt       lt url gt https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2  lt  url gt     lt  repository gt   lt  distributionManagement gt  and then make sure that lines up with what s in your settings xml   lt settings gt     lt servers gt       lt server gt         lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt         lt username gt your-jira-id lt  username gt         lt password gt your-jira-pwd lt  password gt       lt  server gt     lt  servers gt   lt  settings gt    After doing this  running mvn deploy actually uploaded one of my jars for the very first time     Output    INFO  Scanning for projects     INFO   INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Building XBN-Java 0 1 3  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO   INFO  --- build-helper-maven-plugin 1 8 attach-artifact  attach-artifacts    xbnjava ---  INFO   INFO  --- maven-install-plugin 2 4 install  default-install    xbnjava ---  INFO  Installing R  jeffy programming sandbox z  for git commit only xbnjava pom xml to C  Users jeffy  m2 repository com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 3 xbnjava-0 1 3 pom  INFO  Installing R  jeffy programming build xbnjava-0 1 3 download xbnjava-0 1 3 jar to C  Users jeffy  m2 repository com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 3 xbnjava-0 1 3 jar  INFO   INFO  --- maven-deploy-plugin 2 7 deploy  default-deploy    xbnjava --- Uploading  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 3 xbnjava-0 1 3 pom 2 6 KB 4 6 KB 6 6 KB  Uploaded  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 3 xbnjava-0 1 3 pom  6 KB at 4 6 KB sec  Downloading  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava maven-metadata xml 310 310 B  Downloaded  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava maven-metadata xml  310 B at 1 6 KB sec  Uploading  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava maven-metadata xml 310 310 B  Uploaded  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava maven-metadata xml  310 B at 1 4 KB sec  Uploading  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 3 xbnjava-0 1 3 jar 2 630 KB 4 630 KB 6 630 KB 8 630 KB 10 630 KB 12 630 KB 14 630 KB     618 630 KB 620 630 KB 622 630 KB 624 630 KB 626 630 KB 628 630 KB 630 630 KB    Success portion    Uploaded  https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2 com github aliteralmind xbnjava 0 1 3 xbnjava-0 1 3 jar  630 KB at 474 7 KB sec   INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  BUILD SUCCESS  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Total time  4 632 s  INFO  Finished at  2014-07-18T15 09 25-04 00  INFO  Final Memory  6M 19M  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------   Here s the full updated POM    lt project xmlns  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance  xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0 http   maven apache org maven-v4 0 0 xsd  gt     lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt     lt groupId gt com github aliteralmind lt  groupId gt     lt artifactId gt xbnjava lt  artifactId gt     lt packaging gt pom lt  packaging gt     lt version gt 0 1 3 lt  version gt     lt name gt XBN-Java lt  name gt     lt url gt https   github com aliteralmind xbnjava lt  url gt     lt inceptionYear gt 2014 lt  inceptionYear gt     lt organization gt        lt name gt Jeff Epstein lt  name gt     lt  organization gt     lt description gt XBN-Java is a collection of generically-useful backend  server side  non-GUI  programming utilities  featuring RegexReplacer and FilteredLineIterator  XBN-Java is the foundation of Codelet  http   codelet aliteralmind com   lt  description gt      lt licenses gt        lt license gt           lt name gt Lesser General Public License  LGPL  version 3 0 lt  name gt           lt url gt https   www gnu org licenses lgpl-3 0 txt lt  url gt        lt  license gt        lt license gt           lt name gt Apache Software License  ASL  version 2 0 lt  name gt           lt url gt http   www apache org licenses LICENSE-2 0 txt lt  url gt        lt  license gt     lt  licenses gt      lt developers gt        lt developer gt           lt name gt Jeff Epstein lt  name gt           lt email gt aliteralmind-github yahoo com lt  email gt           lt roles gt              lt role gt Lead Developer lt  role gt           lt  roles gt        lt  developer gt     lt  developers gt      lt issueManagement gt        lt system gt GitHub Issue Tracker lt  system gt        lt url gt https   github com aliteralmind xbnjava issues lt  url gt     lt  issueManagement gt      lt distributionManagement gt       lt snapshotRepository gt         lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt         lt url gt https   oss sonatype org content repositories snapshots lt  url gt       lt  snapshotRepository gt       lt repository gt         lt id gt ossrh lt  id gt         lt url gt https   oss sonatype org service local staging deploy maven2  lt  url gt       lt  repository gt     lt  distributionManagement gt      lt scm gt        lt connection gt scm git git github com aliteralmind xbnjava git lt  connection gt        lt url gt scm git git github com aliteralmind xbnjava git lt  url gt        lt developerConnection gt scm git git github com aliteralmind xbnjava git lt  developerConnection gt     lt  scm gt      lt properties gt        lt java version gt 1 7 lt  java version gt        lt jarprefix gt R  jeffy programming build    project artifactId -  project version  download   project artifactId -  project version  lt  jarprefix gt     lt  properties gt     lt build gt        lt plugins gt           lt plugin gt              lt groupId gt org codehaus mojo lt  groupId gt              lt artifactId gt build-helper-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt              lt version gt 1 8 lt  version gt              lt executions gt                 lt execution gt                    lt id gt attach-artifacts lt  id gt                    lt phase gt package lt  phase gt                    lt goals gt                       lt goal gt attach-artifact lt  goal gt                    lt  goals gt                    lt configuration gt                       lt artifacts gt                          lt artifact gt                             lt file gt   jarprefix  jar lt  file gt                             lt type gt jar lt  type gt                          lt  artifact gt                       lt  artifacts gt                    lt  configuration gt                 lt  execution gt              lt  executions gt           lt  plugin gt        lt  plugins gt     lt  build gt      lt profiles gt        lt  --      This profile will sign the JAR file  sources file  and javadocs file using the GPG key on the local machine       See  https   docs sonatype org display Repository How To Generate PGP Signatures With Maven      -- gt        lt profile gt           lt id gt release-sign-artifacts lt  id gt           lt activation gt              lt property gt                 lt name gt release lt  name gt                 lt value gt true lt  value gt              lt  property gt           lt  activation gt        lt  profile gt     lt  profiles gt   lt  project gt    That s one big Maven problem out of the way  Only 627 more to go

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I had the same error  I tried and rechecked everything  I was so focused in the Stack trace that I didn t read the last lines of the build before the Reactor summary and the stack trace     DEBUG  Using connector AetherRepositoryConnector with priority 3 4028235E38 for http   www 8081 nexus content repositories snapshots   INFO  Downloading  http   www 8081 nexus content repositories snapshots com wdsuite com wdsuite server product 1 0 0-SNAPSHOT maven-metadata xml  DEBUG  Could not find metadata com group artifact product version-SNAPSHOT maven-metadata xml in nexus  http   www 8081 nexus content repositories snapshots    DEBUG  Writing tracking file  home me  m2 repository com group project version-SNAPSHOT resolver-status properties  INFO  Uploading  http   www 8081 nexus content repositories snapshots com    -1 0 0-20141118 124526-1 zip  INFO  Uploading  http   www 8081 nexus content repositories snapshots com    -1 0 0-20141118 124526-1 pom  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Reactor Summary    This was the key    Could not find metadata   Although it said that it was an authentication error actually it got fixed doing a  rebuild metadata  in the nexus repository   Hope it helps

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We have had this issue quite recently and found out it was to do with the version of Maven we were using. We were using 3.1.0 and could not upload to nexus, we kept getting 401's, we reverted back to 3.0.3 and the issue went away.

Easiest way to confirm is to work through the maven versions and run "mvn deploy" on your project.

Further details can be found here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WAGON-421

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Also  after you ve updated your repository ids  make sure you run clean as release prepare will pick up where it left off  So you can do    mvn release prepare -Dresume false or   mvn release clean release prepare

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In my case I removed the server logon credentials for central from my setting.

    <server> 
        <id>central</id>
        <username>admin</username> 
        <password>******</password> 
    </server>

   <mirror>
        <id>central</id>
        <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
        <name>maven-central</name>
        <url>http://www.localhost:8081/repository/maven-central/</url>
   </mirror>

I don't know why I did that, but its completely wrong since the central maven repo can be accessed anonymously. See my debug output that led to my error identification and resolution.

[DEBUG] Using connector BasicRepositoryConnector with priority 0.0 for http://www.localhost:8081/repository/maven-central/ with username=admin, password=***

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