If you need to access a secured Artifactory server that requires a username and password, you can specify these in your Debian source.list file by prefixing the artifactory host name with the required credentials as follows:
Accessing Artifactory with credentials
http://user:password@SERVER_HOSTNAME:8081/artifactory/{repoKey} {distribution} {components}
For example:
http://admin:password@localhost:8081/artifactory/debian-local wheezy main restrictedEncrypting your password
You can use your encrypted password as described in Using Your Secure Password.
Compression Formats
Artifactory supports the following compression formats for Debian indices:
Gzip(.gzfile extension) - created by default for every Debian repository and cannot be disabled.Bzip2(.bz2file extension)LZMA(.lzmaextension)XZ(.xzextension)