Re: Migrate HUGE Database

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Richard Heyes <richardh@stripped> wrote:
>> How very inconsistent and obnoxious.
>
> But yet far more secure.

You misunderstand.  I realize that putting the password on the command
line is insecure in the presence of "ps auxwww" and Process Explorer
and such.  I'm kvetching about how mysql and mysqldump parse their
arguments, that
* -uUSERNAME and -pPASSWORD are parsed similarly
* -u USERNAME and -p UNRELATED_ARGUMENT are not

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd@stripped