2 reasons:

1. Imagine *fun* IT society in open space... You just cannot get out
from your desk without locking the desktop :) If you happened to left
console unlocked, you would be jeopardized by prank makers. And you
can call yourself lucky if they only sent couple of e-mails from your
box:] What if they know where to find a password in plain text?
Usually people have one or at most couple of passwords for many of
services.

2. Development boxes. If I need to set up maven in dev box, where
everyone has access I must play with users / rights to have my
password secured and still root admins can see it.

Thanks, though. If I implement this, I'll submit a patch.

On 3/29/06, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Never seen anyone ask about this before so if you've looked and can't
> find any info about this, I'd say its probably not supported. Check
> the source code. If you add this "feature" yourself, please contribute
> the patch back, in case someone else wants this same functionality.
>
> Not really sure why you'd need a non-plaintext m2 proxy password...
> What's the use case? Why doesn't your operating system's file security
> of your settings.xml file prevent someone from getting the password?
>
> Wayne
>
>
> On 3/29/06, Szczepan Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How to set up maven 2 proxy password not in plain text (currently it
> > is configured in settings.xml)?
> >
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