Hi Team, We currently have anonymous access enabled in Nexus Repository, and we’re planning to disable it. After checking with our DevOps team, I learned that our CI/CD pipelines are using a service account for authentication. However, before disabling anonymous access, I want to ensure that nothi…

Probably the best place to look is the request log. I would look at request paths matching /repository/* and /service/rest/v1/* , each line should either have a user-id or a -.

Hi, we went through this change quite recently and are still finding some small issues in less used pipelines. As Matthew mentioned, look at nexus.log and request.log and search for missing usernames (-) for request. What really helped us was a one-time test run. I disabled anonymous access for one…

I checked request.log and found some lines as below. Can you please help me withe next steps? Example: 10.53.152.116 - - [22/Jul/2026:00:00:11 -0600] “GET /repository/middleware/MQ/Baseversion/Linux/9.1.0.5/IBM_MQ_9.1.0.5_LINUX_X86-64.tar.gz HTTP/1.1” 200 - 875596238 9662 “curl/7.29.0” [qtp1169074…

Query Regarding Anonymous Access Usage in Nexus Repository

Sonatype Nexus Repository

Priyanka_Dalawai (Priyanka Dalawai) July 21, 2026, 9:20am 3

I will check.
Thanks

Topic		Replies	Views
Can't have anonymous access Sonatype Nexus Repository	2	1531	January 22, 2020
Nexus Repository Manager - Private Repositories and Anonymous User Permissions Best Practices customer-questions , best-practice	0	6297	June 18, 2020
How to restrict repos for anonymous users Best Practices nexus-repository	1	2211	February 18, 2022
Anonymous Access, nuget push and api keys Sonatype Nexus Repository nexus-repository	0	651	March 17, 2023
Browse and download from Sonatype Nexus 3 public repository without login nor anymous user Sonatype Nexus Repository	2	1386	June 9, 2022

Query Regarding Anonymous Access Usage in Nexus Repository

Related topics