At 7:09 PM +0300 04-04-2000, <sinisa@stripped> wrote:
>Paul DuBois writes:
> > At 1:24 PM +0800 2000-04-04, Jun Garin wrote:
> >
> > Solaris tries to read the password from stdin rather from the terminal.
> > It's taking the first line of the "dump" file as your password.
> > You can either specify the password on the command line (-pyour_pass) or
> > in the [client] group of your option file ~/.my.cnf.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
> >
> > --
>
>An addition to Pual's answer : Plus you can define password in the
>environment variable: MYSQL_PWD.
This is true.
Note that each method may present security problems:
- If you don't make ~/.my.cnf readable only to you, other user may be
able to see it.
- Specifying the password on the command line allows it to be seen for
an instant by ps.
- Setting MYSQL_PWD allows your password to be seen by other users at
any time on systems that have a version of ps that will show process
environments.
--
Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
