Hi,
For confirming that password is shown or not in ps -ef,
just try to connect to your server using your password ,then in a new
window just do ps -ef 400 |grep mysql
You will find the output like below which doesn't show the password
-uroot -px xxxxxxxxxxx
Atleast it is not showing in my case.
Anurag
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From: Rich Allen [mailto:traf (AT) mtaonline (DOT) net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 6:20 AM
To: Cabbar Duzayak
Cc: mysql (AT) lists (DOT) mysql.com
Subject: Re: MySQLDump - Command line password
have you looked at using a my.cnf file?
eMac:~ hcir$ mysqldump test /temp/test.sql
eMac:~ hcir$ ls -l /temp/test.sql
-rw-r 1 hcir staff 78893008 Jul 19 16:47 /temp/test.sql
contents of ~/.my.cnf
[client]
user = username
password= password
# actual username and password of course are not 'username' and
'password'
Jul 19, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Cabbar Duzayak wrote:
Hi,
I have setup cronjobs to take daily backups of my db using mysqldump.
But the problem is, mysqldump requires the password to be passed via
command line, which means anyone on the same machine can take a peek
at my password using "top", "ps -ef", etc.
Is there a way of avoiding this, i.e. making it read the password from
some file, etc? , is there any other alternative I can use?
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