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Aaron Kimball updated MAPREDUCE-710: ------------------------------------ Status: Open (was: Patch Available) > Sqoop should read and transmit passwords in a more secure manner > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-710 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-710 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: contrib/sqoop > Reporter: Aaron Kimball > Assignee: Aaron Kimball > Attachments: MAPREDUCE-710.2.patch, MAPREDUCE-710.patch > > > Sqoop's current support for passwords involves reading passwords from the > command line "--password foo", which makes the password visible to other > users via 'ps'. An invisible-console approach should be taken. > Related, Sqoop transmits passwords to mysqldump in the same fashion, which is > also insecure. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.