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

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

    
      ${security.getCurrentUsername()}
      ${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!"AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ"}
      central
    
    
      ${security.getCurrentUsername()}
      ${security.getEscapedEncryptedPassword()!"AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ"}
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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:

    
      username
      AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ
      central
    
    
      username
      AP56eMPz8L12T5u4J6rWdqWqyhQ
      snapshots
    

Hope this helps!