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Ferdinand Xu commented on HIVE-13589: ------------------------------------- [~vihangk1], I take a look at the BeeLine code. Now -p has been associated with a password. If we make it optional, it will parse the string next to "-p" to see whether it exists a password. In this way, it's possible to treat "--XXXX" as a password since -XXXX doesn't exist in Beeline options. One way I can think of is that we could add a new option which has no password. And prompt user to enter the password. Any thoughputs? > beeline - support prompt for password with '-u' option > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-13589 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13589 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Beeline > Reporter: Thejas M Nair > Assignee: Ke Jia > Attachments: HIVE-13589.1.patch, HIVE-13589.2.patch, > HIVE-13589.3.patch > > > Specifying connection string using commandline options in beeline is > convenient, as it gets saved in shell command history, and it is easy to > retrieve it from there. > However, specifying the password in command prompt is not secure as it gets > displayed on screen and saved in the history. > It should be possible to specify '-p' without an argument to make beeline > prompt for password. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)