Mask Passwords

This plugin allows masking passwords that may appear in the console.

This plugin allows masking passwords that may appear in the console, including the ones defined as build parameters. This often happens, for example, when you use build steps which can't handle passwords properly. Take a look at the following example.

Consider you're using an Invoke Ant build step to run an Ant target. This target requires a password to achieve its goal. You would end up having a job configuration like this:

Of course, you could have created a variable to store the password and use this variable in the build step configuration so that it doesn't appear as plain text. But you would still end with a console output like this:

When activating the Mask passwords option in a job, the builds' Password Parameters (or any other type of build parameters selected for masking in Manage Jenkins > Configure System) are automatically masked from the console. Furthermore, you can also safely define a list of static passwords to be masked (you can also define a list of static password shared by all jobs in Jenkins' main configuration screen). As such, the passwords don't appear anymore as plain text in the job configuration (plus it is ciphered in the job configuration file):

Once done, new builds will have the passwords masked from the console output:

First, go to Jenkins' main configuration screen (Manage Jenkins > Configure System) and select, in the Mask Passwords - Configuration section, which kind of build parameters have to be automatically masked from the console output:

Notice that, as of version 2.7, you can also define global passwords (defined as pairs of name/password) that can be accessed across all jobs.

Then, for a specific job, activate the Mask passwords option in the Build Environment section to mask passwords from the console:

1. All the password parameters defined for the job will be automatically hidden.
2. For each other kind of password (that is, static ones) that may appear in the console output, add an entry (by clicking on the Add button) and set the Password field.
   You may additionally set the Name field. If you do so, the password will then be available as a standard variable. It is then possible to refer to this password using this variable rather than keying it in a field which is not ciphered. Take a look at the screenshots above for an example.

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