From owner-freebsd-database Sat Nov 2 18:16:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A0237B404 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from h24-68-7-184.vc.shawcable.net (h24-68-7-184.vc.shawcable.net [24.68.7.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A058C43E42 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:16:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@patrickg.com) Received: from [24.68.7.184] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h24-68-7-184.vc.shawcable.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA2K6u1m023967 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:06:56 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:06:53 -0800 Subject: MySQL Password not masked in process listings From: patrick gibson To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been noticing that in FreeBSD, when I run the MySQL client with a password specified on the command line (eg. mysql -pMyPassword MY_DATABASE), the password is not masked when I (or any other user!) issue a "ps" or "w" command. > patrick 47724 ... 11:49AM 0:00.03 mysql -pMyPassword MY_DATABASE I recently switched from Linux, and somehow it knew to mask the password: > patrick 47724 ... 11:49AM 0:00.03 mysql -p******* MY_DATABASE Does anyone know if this is a FreeBSD issue, or is it a problem in the way that MySQL is compiled for FreeBSD? Thanks in advance, Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message