Webdeploy Publish Profile password saving

My guess is that the program purposely obfuscates the passwords using the current PC's "salt" and generates a unique hash. Thus, preventing the passwords from being stolen via the profile publish function.

As mentioned by user1785999, you can save the password in plain text, just add the password element to your .pubxml file:

    <UserName>YourName</UserName>
    <Password>YourPassword</Password>

If you want the publishing profile to work across different computers, you need to save the password in plain text.