On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 19:32 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I just noticed that some CentOS 4 or 5 machine that I don't admin but
> have root access to hides MySQL passwords from ps:
>
> Console 1:
> $ mysql -u root -pSECRET
> mysql >
>
> Console2:
> # ps aux
> root 32165 0.0 0.1 109408 2204 pts/1 Ss+ 11:19 0:00 mysql
> -u root -px xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> That is really nice, is it a MySQL feature or a CentOS feature? I have
> some other servers that I _do_ admin and I'd like to enable this.
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you'd still have it in bash_history though so it's really a poor idea to
ever pass a significant password directly on the command line execution
- whether visible or not visible to ps. Much better is to be prompted
for the password instead...
mysql mysql -u root -p
and it will prompt
another option is to have ~/.my.cnf which already has your password
Craig
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