How to find out which settings.xml maven file is used

Question

I recently changed my password and must change the maven settings.xml file to reflect this. However, no matter what I do in the settings.xml file, the changed password will simply not be raised. Out of desperation, I ran maven with the -s switch ( mvn -s <my intended settings.xml file> ), and everything just started working. Maven seems to use the "wrong" settings.xml by default

Is there any way to find out where the settings.xml file used by maven is located?

Answer 1

Use the Maven debugging option, i.e. mvn -X :

 Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100) Maven home: /usr/java/apache-maven-3.0.3 Java version: 1.6.0_12, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_12/jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-32-generic", arch: "i386", family: "unix" [INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on. [DEBUG] Reading global settings from /usr/java/apache-maven-3.0.3/conf/settings.xml [DEBUG] Reading user settings from /home/myhome/.m2/settings.xml ... 

On this output, you can see that the settings.xml file is loaded from /home/myhome/.m2/settings.xml .