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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net> on 2011/01/04 09:40:46 UTC
The master password
Is there any reason why I would need to remember my master password (used
for encrypting my server passwords in settings.xml)? I haven't found any and
I'm thinking that it could be auto-generated (by some tool) when creating
settings-security.xml, instead of specified by the user.
/Anders
Re: The master password
Posted by Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net>.
OK, will likely soon be included in a plugin coming to a repo close to
you...:-)
/Anders
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 23:21, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> I believe if you regenerated another settings-security.xml file with the
> same master password, while the hash would be different it would effectively
> decrypt the passwords.
>
> However, you make a good point - automatically generating it would be a
> nice additional feature.
>
> - Brett
>
> On 04/01/2011, at 7:40 PM, Anders Hammar wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why I would need to remember my master password (used
> > for encrypting my server passwords in settings.xml)? I haven't found any
> and
> > I'm thinking that it could be auto-generated (by some tool) when creating
> > settings-security.xml, instead of specified by the user.
> >
> > /Anders
>
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Re: The master password
Posted by Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>.
I believe if you regenerated another settings-security.xml file with the same master password, while the hash would be different it would effectively decrypt the passwords.
However, you make a good point - automatically generating it would be a nice additional feature.
- Brett
On 04/01/2011, at 7:40 PM, Anders Hammar wrote:
> Is there any reason why I would need to remember my master password (used
> for encrypting my server passwords in settings.xml)? I haven't found any and
> I'm thinking that it could be auto-generated (by some tool) when creating
> settings-security.xml, instead of specified by the user.
>
> /Anders
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Brett Porter
brett@apache.org
http://brettporter.wordpress.com/
http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter
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