No solution for this? Thanks
--- rds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > What you really want to avoid is having the password on the commandline.
> > File permissions won't matter at all if you end up running a command
> > that puts your password in the output of 'ps'! Command lines are always
> > public information. Put the password for mysqldump in the running user's
> > ~/.my.cnf instead, and tighten the permissions on *that* file.
> >
> > [client]
> > password=Your password goes here
>
> I tried that; it does work with mysql but does not appear to work with
> mysqldump.
>
> Is there a way to supply the password to mysqldump when running dump from a
> batch scipt and avoid showing it on the command line?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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