Typically, it is not desirable to have plaintext passwords in configuration files. One way to avoid this is obfuscation. This is not a secure encryption. However, it is sufficient enough so that unauthorised persons cannot read the password from a screen.

An obfuscated password always starts with OBF:

The encryption (and decryption) can be done with the Admin Console and a script. See also the plugin Encode/Decode .

In addition, the two functions obfuscate() and de-obfuscate() are available.