Sonatype Nexus: How to set a single server credentials for multiple repositories in maven's settings.xml?

Question

We have multiple repositories in Nexus (i.e., releases, snapshot and site). All 3 repos are under public group and users uses the same credentials to access all these repositori

Answer 1

Just use one entry in setttings.xml like that

   
    nexus   
    deployment   
    deployment123      
  

and then in distributionManagement in your pom.xml's you use something like that

  nexus
  Nexus Releases
  http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases


  nexus
  Nexus Snapshot
  http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots

For fully working setup with this look at the Nexus Book Examples project that are used in the trial guide. You can add a site with the same id as well, of course. Keep in mind that there is no problem if the id;s are the same as they just detail the identifier of the server element in settings to look for and are NOT an id element for the repository. Imho it should be called serverId or something to be clearer, but thats a different story.