Missing MaskPasswordsConfig.xml file after installing Mark Password plugin

Issue

After installing Mask Password plugins, this error appears:

Oct 24, 2019 7:10:31 PM com.michelin.cio.hudson.plugins.maskpasswords.MaskPasswordsConfig load
WARNING: Unable to load Mask Passwords plugin configuration from com.michelin.cio.hudson.plugins.maskpasswords.MaskPasswordsConfig.xml
java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /var/jenkins_home/com.michelin.cio.hudson.plugins.maskpasswords.MaskPasswordsConfig.xml

Environment

Resolution

This indicates that you are missing a file, but this file will be generated once you modified the Mark Password plugin configuration for the first time in Manage Jenkins -> Configure System and save it. Then, the file will be created with these changes and this warning will disappear.

Tested product/plugin versions

Mask Passwords Plugin version 2.12.0

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