Re: hiding passwd in cmdlines that appear in the process list

tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote:

I don't know if this would work, but maybe something like this: cat /my/sql/root/passwd/file | mysql -h localhost --user=admin -D somedb < "/my/import/script.sql" 2>&1 No idea if that'd work, but it might put you in the right ballpark.

You can't do this. The pipe gets overridden by the stdin redirect (at least it does on FreeBSD 5.4). Jochem: You need to read this... http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/password-security.html -Stut