Re: 0.91RC1

Hi Konrad,

Unfortunatelly, it is not really safe to keep database password in environment variable.
On Linux, for example, one could inspect other's process environment
by looking into /proc/<PID>/environ 


Constantin


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 07:36:04AM -0400, Konrad J Hambrick wrote:
> 
> I also found it useful (and more secure ps-wise) to
> avoid setting the HostName / UserName / PassWord on
> the commandline.
> 
> freebcp.c already looks for a environment varb: FREEBCP
> so I added code to src/apps/freebcp.c to use FREEBCPHOST,
> FREEBCPUSER and FREEBCPPASS from the user's environment
> instead of from the commandline.
>