On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 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. ---- create a proper .my.cnf file - problem solved Craig