Re: Hiding password in fisql and bsqldb

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Chase wrote:
> I'm trying to use fisql and bsqldb in a bash script and I'm having
> problems finding a way to hide the password from the ps command without
> requiring user input.

Yeah, it's a problem.  On my agenda for some time is adding the ability to
use $HOME/.netrc for that purpose, as some ftp clients do.  sqsh uses
.sqshrc to do the same thing (except limited to one
server+username+password tuple).  

It would be a welcome patch.  

--jkl
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