title: Where do I get my actual Azure Website Deployment password?
body: <p>In Visual studio 2015, when I Publish my Website/Webapp to Azure, I'm able to create a new publishing profile automatically (by entering my personal Azure account credentials), this creates the <code>.pubxml</code> and <code>.pubxml.user</code> files. The deployment username is of the form "<code>$websiteName</code>" and the password is represented by a long series of bullet points. The <code>.pubxml.user</code> file contains the actual password, which is encrypted such that only my Visual Studio can read it, by decrypting it with my local Windows user account - I, as a human, have no way to see it. Also, the <code>.user</code> files are excluded from Source Control (but the <code>.pubxml</code> files are included in Source Control).</p>
  
  <p>When another person on my team tries to deploy the website, they get the same deployment settings, but are prompted for the password for the "<code>$website</code>" account. I have no idea where to get this password from - the Azure Management portal does not display it.</p>
  
  <p>If the person opens the portal and chooses to Reset the publishing profile, then they can download a new <code>.pubxml</code> file that contains an encrypted password that I understand only their personal Azure credentials can decrypt, but that breaks deployment for me and other users because now their saved passwords (in the <code>.user</code> files) is invalidated.</p>
  
  <p>I understand this is a different username+password to the "Deployment Credentials" blade on the Azure portal because currently the website has no Deployment Credentials set, in addition if I were to set one, the username is different. The Portal states that those credentials are for FTP access anyway - no mention is made of the Web Deploy feature.</p>