have you looked at using a my.cnf file?
eMac:~ hcir$ mysqldump test > /temp/test.sql
eMac:~ hcir$ ls -l /temp/test.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 hcir staff 78893008 Jul 19 16:47 /temp/test.sql
contents of ~/.my.cnf
[client]
user = username
password= password
# actual username and password of course are not 'username' and
'password'
On Jul 19, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Cabbar Duzayak wrote:
Hi,
I have setup cronjobs to take daily backups of my db using mysqldump.
But the problem is, mysqldump requires the password to be passed via
command line, which means anyone on the same machine can take a peek
at my password using "top", "ps -ef", etc.
Is there a way of avoiding this, i.e. making it read the password from
some file, etc? Or, is there any other alternative I can use?
