```maven("<https://path/to/dependencies>") { n...

# gradle

[nuhkoca]

maven("<https://path/to/dependencies>") {
    name = "fooBar"
    credentials(PasswordCredentials::class)
}

Hello I have a password protected remote packages and trying to use PasswordCredentials but I only have a password not username. How do I leave username empty and just inject password from gradle.properties?

[Vampire]

How does it work with just a password?
I mean with what authentication mechanism?
Afair how you wrote it, it only works with basic auth.
And basic auth needs a username and a password.

[nuhkoca]

I mean username is just empty and the password is a personal access token

[Adam S]

the PaswordCredentials thing is shortcut - you can get the username and password separately with providers.gradleProperty("<insert-variable-here>")

You can try this, but I'm not sure this will work without a username...

// build.gradle.kts

val fooBarPassword = providers.gradleProperty("fooBarPassword")

repositories { 
  maven("https://...") {
    name = "fooBar"
    credentials {
      username = "" // might be necessary?  
      password = fooBarPassword.get()
    }
  }
}

this answer explains more about `providers.gradleProperty(...)`: https://stackoverflow.com/a/72075210/4161471

[Vampire]

Does the username have to be empty, or can it be anything and is ignored?
If the latter, just set it to any value in the properties file.

[Vampire]

Or you can try if it works with an empty value too

[Vampire]

At least Gradle does not complain with an empty value for the property while it complains if the property is absent, so I'd guess it should just work

[gildor]

Why not just pass empty variable, it should work. Empty username is still username for base auth

[Vampire]

Isn't that what I just suggested?
I'm just not sure whether the implementation properly handles empty value, but as it does not complain I guess it does.