[JENKINS-61386] Declarative `credentials` step should allow override-able variable names

Within a declarative pipeline, I want to be able to override the automatic variables of `credentials()` as the tooling I'm using requires the environment variables to be of a particular name.

Currently, I must do the following:

BIGIP_CREDENTIALS = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID')

BIGIP_USER= "${env.BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_USR}"

BIGIP_PASSWORD    = "${env.BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_PSW}"

To avoid those additional steps (and security risk, as Jenkins will not strip the values of BIGIP_USER and BIGIP_PASSWORD from the output) I would rather do one of the following:

// Allow the user to override the automatic username/password variable names

BIGIP_CREDENTIALS = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID','BIGIP_USER','BIGIP_PASSWORD')

// Allow the use to only pull out the username or password

BIGIP_USER     = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID', 'USER')

BIGIP_PASSWORD = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID', 'PASSWORD')

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Originally reported by jakauppila, imported from: Declarative `credentials` step should allow override-able variable names

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): credentials-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-08
  

Raw content of original issue

Within a declarative pipeline, I want to be able to override the automatic variables of `credentials()` as the tooling I'm using requires the environment variables to be of a particular name.


Currently, I must do the following:



BIGIP_CREDENTIALS = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID')

BIGIP_USER        = "${env.BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_USR}"

BIGIP_PASSWORD    = "${env.BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_PSW}"





To avoid those additional steps (and security risk, as Jenkins will not strip the values of BIGIP_USER and BIGIP_PASSWORD from the output) I would rather do one of the following:



// Allow the user to override the automatic username/password variable names

BIGIP_CREDENTIALS = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID','BIGIP_USER','BIGIP_PASSWORD')







// Allow the use to only pull out the username or password

BIGIP_USER     = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID', 'USER')

BIGIP_PASSWORD = credentials('BIGIP_CREDENTIALS_ID', 'PASSWORD')