How to prevent password expiration in apache Archiva

I am running a standalone Archiva 2.2.0 installation. I added security.properties file to ~\conf directory. In security.properties I defined:

security.policy.password.expiration.days=999999
security.policy.password.expiration.enabled=false

However, Archiva keeps complaining that the admin password has expired.

Thank you!

For me to get this to work for Archiva 2.2.0 I had to edit {archiva root}\conf\archiva.xml. There's a password section and within that is expiration where you can configure if it is enabled or not and set the number of days. Creating a security.properties did not work for me.

You can configure via the Archiva web interface:

Section Users Runtime Configuration > Properties

At page 3, set as false the property security.policy.password.expiration.enabled

Save!

Maybe you are editing the wrong file? I assume this because in this blog post there is stated a quite different path.

The path stated in the blog post is:

{Archiva Server}\apps\archiva\WEB-INF\classes\org\apache\maven\archiva\security.properties