Echo off in Jenkins Console Output

Question

I'm following guideline how to sign Android apk with Jenkins. I have parametrized Jenkins job with KSTOREPWD and KEYPWD. A part of Jenkins' job configuration (Build->Execute shell) is to take those parameters and store them as environment variables:

export KSTOREPWD=${KSTOREPWD}
export KEYPWD=${KEYPWD}
...
./gradlew assembleRelease

The problem is when the build is over anybody can access the build "Console Output" and see what passwords were entered; part of that output:

08:06:57 + export KSTOREPWD=secretStorePwd
08:06:57 + KSTOREPWD=secretStorePwd
08:06:57 + export KEYPWD=secretPwd
08:06:57 + KEYPWD=secretPwd

So I'd like to suppress echo before output from export commands and re-enable echo after export commands.

Answer 1

By default, Jenkins launches Execute Shell script with set -x. This causes all commands to be echoed

You can type set +x before any command to temporary override that behavior. Of course you will need set -x to start showing them again.

You can override this behaviour for the whole script by putting the following at the top of the build step:
#!/bin/bash +x

Answer 2

Here is an example of how to write the sh parameter in Jenkinsfile with no output in a more secure way, as suggested in official documentation. The set +x does the main magic as has been written in this answer.

The single-quotes will cause the secret to be expanded by the shell as an environment variable. The double-quotes are potentially less secure as the secret is interpolated by Groovy, and so typical operating system process listings (as well as Blue Ocean, and the pipeline steps tree in the classic UI) will accidentally disclose it:

Insecure, wrong usage:

node {
  withCredentials([string(credentialsId: 'mytoken', variable: 'TOKEN')]) {
    sh /* WRONG! */ """
      set +x
      curl -H 'Token: $TOKEN' https://some.api/
    """
  }
}

Correct usage ✅:

node {
  withCredentials([string(credentialsId: 'mytoken', variable: 'TOKEN')]) {
    sh '''
      set +x
      curl -H 'Token: $TOKEN' https://some.api/
    '''
  }
}

Answer 3

In your specific situation (using gradle and jenkins) you could also use a Password Parameter, using Gradle's pattern for environment variables (ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_prop). Gradle will then set a propproperty on your project.

In your case this would look something like this

And you can use it in your gradle.properties like this

signingConfigs {
    release {
        storeFile file(KEYSTORE)
        storePassword KSTOREPWD
        keyAlias ALIAS
        keyPassword KEYPWD
    }
}

BTW - I recommend using the credentials binding plugin for KEYSTORE