# Hide password variables from logs
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [August 20, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824 "2026-08-20T06:22:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@boulrik](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/boulrik)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824/1 "2026-08-20T06:22:44Z")
With FinalBuilder 8.5 adding support for password variables, we were pleased to see that these values are now encrypted inside FinalBuilder project files. This is a very welcome improvement from a security standpoint.
However, it appears that password variable values may still be written in plain text to FinalBuilder log files during execution.
Would it be possible to have password variables automatically masked in logs, for example by displaying them as `***` or `[hidden]`, wherever they are expanded or printed?
Thanks for considering this enhancement.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824/2 "2026-08-20T06:39:12Z")
Hi Ulrik
Which action(s) were you seeing the password variable in?
We do attempt to mask variables from the logs - but it’s not perfect because some tools echo command lines etc.
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### Author:  [@boulrik](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/boulrik)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824/3 "2026-08-20T06:57:41Z")
Action was Execute Batch Script, password variable passed in Parameters.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 7:04am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824/4 "2026-08-20T07:04:09Z")
Ok looking into it.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824/5 "2026-08-20T08:46:24Z")
Hopefully we have found all the cases - this build has fixes for 2 actions that were not masking correctly (not using the correct api).
[https://downloads.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/860/FB860\_3670.exe](https://downloads.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/860/FB860_3670.exe)
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### Author:  [@boulrik](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/boulrik)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/hide-password-variables-from-logs/7824/6 "2026-08-24T07:47:31Z")
Working perfect now, thanks for very fast support!