title: Removing password plain text from JMX file
body: <p>There is a project I am working on that uses the jmx file to run some performance tests on an API with JMeter.
  API needs authentication and the username and password is plain text on the JMX file using &quot;password123&quot;.
  I need to remove this plain text password so when code gets pushed to gitlab, doesn't go with the password as well.
  Any help would be really appreciated.
  This is how the section of the file looks like that has the username/password:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;elementProp name=&quot;grant_type&quot; elementType=&quot;HTTPArgument&quot;&gt;
      &lt;boolProp name=&quot;HTTPArgument.always_encode&quot;&gt;true&lt;/boolProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.value&quot;&gt;password&lt;/stringProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.metadata&quot;&gt;=&lt;/stringProp&gt;
      &lt;boolProp name=&quot;HTTPArgument.use_equals&quot;&gt;true&lt;/boolProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.name&quot;&gt;grant_type&lt;/stringProp&gt;
  &lt;/elementProp&gt;
  &lt;elementProp name=&quot;username&quot; elementType=&quot;HTTPArgument&quot;&gt;
      &lt;boolProp name=&quot;HTTPArgument.always_encode&quot;&gt;true&lt;/boolProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.value&quot;&gt;johnSmith&lt;/stringProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.metadata&quot;&gt;=&lt;/stringProp&gt;
      &lt;boolProp name=&quot;HTTPArgument.use_equals&quot;&gt;true&lt;/boolProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.name&quot;&gt;username&lt;/stringProp&gt;
  &lt;/elementProp&gt;
  &lt;elementProp name=&quot;password&quot; elementType=&quot;HTTPArgument&quot;&gt;
      &lt;boolProp name=&quot;HTTPArgument.always_encode&quot;&gt;true&lt;/boolProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.value&quot;&gt;password123&lt;/stringProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.metadata&quot;&gt;=&lt;/stringProp&gt;
      &lt;boolProp name=&quot;HTTPArgument.use_equals&quot;&gt;true&lt;/boolProp&gt;
      &lt;stringProp name=&quot;Argument.name&quot;&gt;password&lt;/stringProp&gt;
  &lt;/elementProp&gt;
  </code></pre>