What are industry standard ways of managing server logins that Jenkins does for its builds?

[Kiran]

Does anyone know what percentage of enterprises with Jenkins use the different authentication methods for their builds?  I would like to know what is common and what is not.

For example, are enterprises using the following methods in equal 25% portions?
  "Manage credentials" the native Jenkins feature
  "Credentials Plugin"
  "SSH Credentials plugin"
  "Publish over SSH plugin"

How are the last two different from each other from a technical perspective?

[Daniel Beck]

> On 13.08.2016, at 14:46, Kiran <catrina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Manage credentials" the native Jenkins feature
> "Credentials Plugin"
> "SSH Credentials plugin"

These are all basically the same thing.

SSH Credentials Plugin is based on Credentials Plugin and provides the SSH credentials types (while IIRC Credentials Plugin only has generic username/password).

'Manage Credentials' in the sidebar is provided by the Credentials Plugin.

[Kiran]

How is the SSH Slaves Plugin different?