[CentOS] No MySQL password in ps aux!

[John Beranek]

On 12/09/2011 03:37, Devin Reade wrote:
> Getting back to the original question, it is a feature of mysql (not
> of CentOS per se), but there's nothing that stops other (C) programs
> from doing something similar.  Shortly after startup, a programmer can
> set things up so that command line arguments (or in this case one of
> them) is hidden from anyone from viewing the process table.

You can even do this in something like Perl, here you just modify '$0'.

John.

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