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

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Priyanka_Dalawai (Priyanka Dalawai) July 22, 2026, 9:08am 5

Thank you.

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Query Regarding Anonymous Access Usage in Nexus Repository

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