On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> On 28/09/2012, at 9:41 AM, "Sposato, Terry" <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We currently use Nexus as our project’s local repository server which works 
>> well.
>> We also have a Terminal server which offshore developers access to do their 
>> development/testing/building etc.
>> I want to know if there is a way of having all these users access the same 
>> .m2 local repository which maven3 is using in a safe way?
>> I have currently set the path in settings.xml to use a local path, which at 
>> a high level works, I am just not sure if this will cause issues moving 
>> forward?
>>
>> Please reply all as I am currently not subscribed to the list.
>
> Sharing the local repository is not advised. There's no external locking on 
> files written there.
>
> Given you have a repository manager, as long as you have one geographically 
> close to that terminal server (or on the machine), you typically give each 
> user a local repository and are free to clean it out frequently if needed.

And for other non-Maven security reasons, you would want to have each
person have a separate account on your terminal server anyway.

So shared accounts aren't advised are generally considered a "bad thing"(tm)

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