On Monday 14 June 2010 19:33:31 Jonathan Livni wrote: > I need Fabric to pass an arbitrary string to the remote shell due to a > user-prompt. > Specifically I need to give the password to mysqldump command and my web > hosting site does not allow the --password=[password] flag > Only answer I could find on the web is "use pexpect", which isn't a good > answer...
I have the mysql user/password in a '~/.my.cnf' for the user running 'mysqldump'. Most Mysql tools read this file automatically, so you won't be prompted. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/option-files.html Don't forget protecting the file with 'chmod 600 ~/.my.cnf' -- ############################## ### Jordi Funollet ### http://www.terraquis.net _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list Fab-user@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user