Extract passphrase from Jenkins' credentials.xml

Question

I have added an SSH credential to Jenkins.

Unfortunately, I have forgotten the SSH passphrase and would now like to obtain it from Jenkins\' credential archive, which is

Answer 1

Yes you can get it back. It is AES encrypted and you have to do some things before like searching for the passphrase. Have a look into the Secret class.

But you have look, there are already some scripts out there:

https://github.com/tweksteen/jenkins-decrypt
https://gist.github.com/menski/8f9980999ed43246b9b2

More information and a way to do it with java, can you find here:

What password encryption Jenkins is using?