Does JIRA XML Backup include passwords?

Naama Lev
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March 11, 2015

Hello, 

Can you please let me know if 

JIRA XML Backup include passwords?

Thanks

Naama

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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March 11, 2015

Some of them.

It won't contain passwords for users because JIRA never stores them.  Because you never should.  It stores the salt and hash so that passwords can't be extracted.

The passwords it might contain are passwords for integrations with other systems, email, source control etc.

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Adrian Stephen
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March 12, 2015

You have the option of Anonymising JIRA Data . Please refer to this page :

 

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