Why am I getting a “401 Unauthorized” error in Maven?

Question

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):

Answer 1

just change in settings.xml these as aliteralmind says:

  
      nexus-snapshots
      MY_SONATYPE_DOT_COM_USERNAME
      MY_SONATYPE_DOT_COM_PASSWORD    
 

you probably need to get the username / password from sonatype dot com.