On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Michael Conrad wrote:
>
> All mysql utilities overwrite passwords in cmdline as a security measure.
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/password-security-user.html

Well, I recently learned there's some effort put in the linux kernel
to help with that sort of thing.  See:

        Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

(at the bottom) in a kernel source tree (I'm looking at 3.13)

,----
| Configuring procfs
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| 4.1     Mount options
| ---------------------
|
| The following mount options are supported:
|
|         hidepid=        Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode.
|         gid=            Set the group authorized to learn processes 
information.
`----


> Hope that helps.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian
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