How do I use credentials-binding in a freestyle project?

Brian Auron

• November 27, 2017 21:55

Jenkins 2.86

Jenkins Job Builder 2.0.0

 

I'm able to use the credentials-binding plugin in a freestyle project, but the values are "****" for both username and password. I can't find any concrete resource on how to retrieve the actual values from the specified credentials.

The closest I've come is this post: https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/203802500/comments/115000005711 which was never answered. 

Any tips are much appreciated. Thanks!

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  Denys Digtiar

  • November 27, 2017 22:44

  Secrets by default are hidden on the UI to protect you from the accidental exposure. The environment variable to which the secrets are bound should contain actual values.

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  Brian Auron

  • November 28, 2017 19:24

  Hi Denys,

   

  So the plugin (or Jenkins itself?) looks for the value of the password and masks it in the console regardless of where that value is stored?
  
  For example, given the binding:

  - credentials-binding:
       - username-password-separated:
          credential-id: super-awesome-creds-id
          username: SUPERAWESOMEUSER
          password: SUPERAWESOMEPASS
  
  
  

  
  and shell build step:

  
  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  
  tempvar="${SUPERAWESOMEUSER}"
  echo "I found it: ${tempvar}"

   

  then it's expected that the echo will produce "****" (which it does)?

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  Denys Digtiar

  • December 31, 2018 06:17

  Yes, in this case, I believe it is the Credentials Binding plugin that does the Console Output filtering but it is enabled by the extension points in the Jenkins core.

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