mvn deploy with username password without configuring settings.xml [duplicate] - maven

Question

This is the way it currently works, and it's the Maven Deploy Plugin Usage
pom.xml
[...]
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>internal.repo</id>
<name>MyCo Internal Repository</name>
<url>Host to Company Repository</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
[...]
settings.xml
[...]
<server>
<id>internal.repo</id>
<username>someUser</username>
<password>somePassword</password>
</server>
[...]
and what I'm trying to achieve is finding a way in which the username and password are typed in at the command line. to achieve mvn deploy -someUser -somePassword

Answer 1

The settings.xml is considered personal, so for that reason the username+password are stored in the (user-)settings.xml. So in general there's no reason to pass them as argument. (btw, passwords can be stored encrypted here) The maven-deploy-plugin has no option to pass them via commandline. However, I've seen hacks like:
<username>${internal.repo.username}</username>
And now you can do -Dinternal.repo.username=someUser

Answer 2

I'll lay out here the full solution, but basically Robert Scholte's solution works brilliant.
In your ~/.m2/settings.xml you should have the following
<settings>
<servers>
<server>
<id>${repo.id}</id>
<username>${repo.login}</username>
<password>${repo.pwd}</password>
</server>
</servers>
</settings>
and then you just
mvn -Drepo.id=myRepo -Drepo.login=someUser -Drepo.pwd=somePassword clean install
You can even use your environment variable (if you are doing that on the remote server/container, for example):
mvn -Drepo.id=$REPO_ID -Drepo.login=$REPO_LOGIN -Drepo.pwd=$REPO_PWD clean install

Answer 3

This also works:
<server>
<id>${repo.id}</id>
<username>${repo.username}</username>
<password>${repo.password}</password>
</server>