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Draft for review: Security notes for Pipeline authors #4667

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This is a draft to work on content. After #4612 is merged, this PR should be integrated into _chapter.yml appropriately and be mentioned in the index.doc and managing-security.adoc files.

@daniel-beck @Wadeck I made a rough start on the content and provided the relevant xrefs but I don't think that my prose is the best and there are probably other issues that should be included here.

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Thanks for the initiative!

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Looks good to me

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== Use Credentials to Access Resources

If your Pipeline needs to access external resources such as a database, artifact repository, or cloud, be sure to use credentials [add link] for authorization rather than hard coding the username/password, secret text, or other identifiers in your Pipeline.
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Is this link in the main document so it can't be updated yet?

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Link added in 22eb380

and be very careful when passing sensitive data such as environment variables.
Never enclose sensitive environment variables in double quotes!
Data inside double quotes is subject to Groovy string interpolation, which means that Groovy evaluates the string and passes the actual value through where it may be visible as an argument to the `sh` or `bat` step or some other facility.
Data that is enclosed in single quotes is passed to the interpreter (`sh`, `bat`, `powershell`, or `pwsh` for evaluation and so is secure.
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I don't know if you want to mention if that extends to the multi-line strings? ''' and """

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Sure, but could you give me a little more information? Maybe a code snippet as an example? I find one mention of multiline strings in "Storing Secrets" in /doc/developer but no discussion of them and I'm not familiar with them.

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Please take a moment and address the merge conflicts of your pull request. Thanks!

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