Maven error: Not authorized, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized

Question

I checked out my code from the Nexus repository repository. I changed the password for my account and set it correctly inside my settings.xml file. While executing mvn install clean I get the error saying Not authorized, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized when it tries to download files from that repository.

Any idea how to solve this error? I am using Windows 7 with Maven 3.04

Solution 1

The problem here was a typo error in the password used, which was not easily identified due to the characters / letters used in the password.

Solution 2

The issue may happen while fetching dependencies from a remote repository. In my case, the repository did not need any authentication and it has been resolved by removing the servers section in the settings.xml file:

<servers>
    <server>
      <id>SomeRepo</id>
      <username>SomeUN</username>
      <password>SomePW</password>
    </server>
</servers>

ps: I guess your target is mvn clean install instead of maven install clean

Solution 3

I have recently encountered this problem. Here are the steps to resolve

1. Check the servers section in the settings.xml file.Is username and password correct?

<servers>
  <server>
    <id>serverId</id>
    <username>username</username>
    <password>password</password>
  </server>
</servers>

2. Check the repository section in the pom.xml file.The id of the server tag should be the same as the id of the repository tag.

<repositories>
	<repository>
	  <id>serverId</id>  
	  <url>http://maven.aliyun.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
	</repository>
</repositories>

3. If the repository tag is not configured in the pom.xml file, look in the settings.xml file.

<profiles>
	<profile>
	  <repositories>
	    <repository>
		    <id>serverId</id>
		    <name>aliyun</name>
		    <url>http://maven.aliyun.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
	    </repository>
	  </repositories>
	</profile>
</profiles>

Note that you should ensure that the id of the server tag should be the same as the id of the repository tag.

Solution 4

You have an old password in the settings.xml. It is trying to connect to the repositories, but is not able to, since the password is not updated. Once you update and re-run the command, you should be good.

Solution 5

In my case the issue was that I was executing the mvn command with "sudo".

mvn test looks for credentials here: /home/aurelio/.m2/settings.xml -> configured with repo credentials

sudo mvn test looks for credentials here: /home/root/.m2/settings.xml -> no repo credentials configured.

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Comments

[dokaspar]

what was the problem with the characters / letters? and how did you solve it?

[Mahendra Liya]

The problem was that I had the password with a missing letter. This was because the password was having few letters which were repeating and so it got had to identify the missing letter initially..

[chapeljuice]

Couldn't add an answer anymore, but my problem was I needed to add a server to my settings.xml file that I didn't have in there yet.

[Paulo Oliveira]

This will work even If I use a SOCKS proxy on Maven?

[jp093121]

Note: On Windows, my settings.xml file was located in [ %USER_HOME%/.m2/settings.xml ], after adding the above, I no longer got the Unauthorized

[splintor]

The comment about the clean order saved me. After adding a dependency to the repository mvn install kept failing, until I realized I need to do mvn clean install. Thanks!

[Norbert]

I resolved this error by adding the correct password to my global settings.xml. Using mvn clean install -X reveals the stack trace an that also helped.

[Vineela Thonupunuri]

..\Maven\apache-maven-3.5.2\conf that is the path to your settings.xml

[Ordiel]

That does not seem to be quite the alternative, specially if you care about security at your workplace