What i don't understand is that i did my first XEM
releases on Windows
(XP) so it used to work well. Maybe a bug has been introduced in more
recent wagon plugins that we could workaround by changing the version.
I doubt we changed the version since then. Were you asked for the login
I'm sure we changed the version since then: it was in 2007 so the
release plugin and even maven itself versions changed a lot since then
and so did the wagon plugin version.
password or private key passphrase?
AFAIR we always used key based authentication for deploy on
maven.xwiki.org.
My issues is that it can't autologin to the
server even with the private
key path and passphrase specified in settings.xml.
Did you trying a private key without passphrase (i did not set any
passphrase for the private key) ? Maybe that's the difference.