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Barrie Treloar commented on MNG-5253:
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I know, but given that the bug is actually in the JVM, and one they have not
fixed until Java 7 you do not have any other options.
A 76 character password is still secure enough.
> exception from mvn deploy, fails when the username and password are too
> secure/long
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>
> Key: MNG-5253
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5253
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0.3
> Reporter: Scott Clasen
> Attachments: pom.xml, settings.xml
>
>
> If the combination of the username and password is too long, the Base64
> encoder used inserts newlines in the encoded value, which is invalid
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character(s) in message header
> value: Basic
> c29tZVVzZXJuYW1lOnNvbWVMb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29v
> b29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vb29vbmdQYXNzd29yZA==
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Attaching a sample pom and settings, run 'mvn -s settings.xml deploy' to
> reproduce
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