Making Sonatype Nexus Repository publically accessible to be able to download artifacts with URL like maven central

Question

I am trying to make nexus repository public so that another application can use it or download it without any authentication ( with just provided URL ) just like maven central. Is there any way to do that?

eg I am trying to use this url to download akashh-1-javadoc.jar but it shows me login box first to download this artifact. http://localhost:8081/repository/temp/com/akashh/1/akashh-1-javadoc.jar

Is there any way to make nexus repository public without any username or password?

Answer 1

If you enable Read access for the anonymous user, this should be possible. To do so, go to Security -> Users, select "anonymous", and check that the user has the role "Repo: All repositories (read)" in the Role management box.

See the following picture how it should look like:

If you only want to have anonymous read permissions for a specific repository, you need to create a role for that specific permission and assign that role to the anonymous user.