Lenny Primak opened MNG-8417 and commented

When settings.xml contains new-style encrypted passwords, maven will not build unless it can decrypt the password.

The use case is that the passwords are used only for deployment, while 99% of the use cases don't require the passwords.

This forces the users to have to have secure environment variables or other ways to get the master password at all times, enhancing security risks

Affects: 4.0.0-beta-5, 4.0.0-rc-1

Issue Links:

• MNG-8419 non obvious errors if maven can not decrypt passwords in settings