Don't use it, use --password= instead.. The downside to this is that anyone can see your password in the process list, but I'm going to hazard a guess that no users are scanning the process list that often on a shared webserver. -Micah On Saturday 05 November 2005 5:21 pm, Todd Cary wrote: > Micah - > > With the "-p" switch, the user is asked for the password. How does that > happen with the system command? > > Todd > > Micah Stevens wrote: > > system("mysql -u user -p db < /tmp/mydb"); > > > > On Saturday 05 November 2005 4:02 pm, Todd Cary wrote: > >>My client switched from a dedicated server to a shared server, so I > >>cannot use the command line to import a DB that was produced with > >>mysqldump. Can I duplicate "mysql -u user -p db < /tmp/mydb" with php? > >> > >>Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.... > >> > >>Todd -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php