title: Jenkins can't find maven setting.xml file outside Jenkins Home
body: <p>I have Jenkins running on CentOS server and I'm trying to set up a job that runs <strong>mvn clean install</strong> on a git project. Since I want to use a global maven repository for my whole server, I'm setting up my project to run maven using a setting file in a path outside Jenkins home:</p>
  
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  <p>When running the build, Jenkins can't find that settings.xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
  [workspace] $ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.0.4/bin/mvn -f firma-digital-service/pom.xml -s /home/dcalderon/.m2/repository/settings.xml -X clean package
  Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 03:44:56-0500)
  Maven home: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.0.4
  Java version: 1.8.0_121, vendor: Oracle Corporation
  Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.121-0.b13.el7_3.x86_64/jre
  Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
  OS name: "linux", version: "3.10.0-123.4.2.el7.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
  [INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
  [ERROR] Error executing Maven.
  java.io.FileNotFoundException: The specified user settings file does not exist: /home/dcalderon/.m2/repository/settings.xml
  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.settings(MavenCli.java:681)
  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:193)
  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
  Build step 'Invoke top-level Maven targets' marked build as failure
  Finished: FAILURE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When running the exact same commands Jenkins runs via command line everything works correctly which show that the file does exist in the server. What am I doing wrong? Is it an issue regarding user restrictions?</p>