specify custom location of maven security-settings.xml file?

Question

with maven you can easily specify settings.xml location, e.g:

mvn -s custom/dir/settings.xml package

Is there a similiar way to specify custom

Answer 1

This was requested as MNG-4853. Although not implemented directly, a workaround is suggested:

I've verified that -Dsettings.security=path/to/security-settings.xml works

As detailed in the announcement blog post, you can also use the master password relocation feature. Write an ~/.m2/security-settings.xml file with a redirection in it:

<settingsSecurity>
  <relocation>/Volumes/mySecureUsb/secret/settings-security.xml</relocation>
</settingsSecurity>