On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:30, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > not exactly sure what point you are trying to make about being > compromised - not all that relevant but you can still just use -p option > without the password and get prompted for the password which actually > solves your question. > The password is 32 random characters covering all of ASCII. I don't want to go look for it several times a day. > Also, since MySQL is client/server you could probably use the mysql > client on your local machine and connect to the server and use > encryption but that isn't what you asked. > On the server MySQL only listens to localhost. > Also, presuming you are using bash on the originating machine, you would > have it in bash_history, just on a different machine. The point I was > trying to make is that it is generally a poor idea to put a password > into a shell command whether mysql or whatever. > No, this is why I mentioned the alias. Only the alias shows in my local history, not the password. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com