I've been searching around for the past few days now trying to figure out how to use something other than ssh when using the jar:deploy goal. Is it possible to use scp or ftp? If scp or ftp are available, is it possible to specify a password in the properties file? I know that it is possible to set this property if you are using scp within ant 1.6, it would be nice if the same feature existed in maven. Any help would be appreciated, right now this is the only thing stopping me from using maven. (fyi ... key based authentication using ssh is not possible within my environment) Thanks, - David