I see you are not in that channel so continuing the discussion here.

Maven provides the option of storing credentials and repository related information in the

.m2/settings.xml

file. Where this can also be encrypted. As of now, to access this I’d need to depend on a plugin like https://github.com/mark-vieira/gradle-maven-settings-plugin.

However considering this is common practice in maven internal publishing I feel that this could be a feature catered too by gradle (or the maven-publish plugin) itself? The does not fall under the credential types that are listed in doc you shared above.

The relevant section of the settings file is https://maven.apache.org/settings.html#Servers