[freetds] Hiding passwords (was patch for freebcp: take password from stdin instead of command line)
Wood, David
David.Wood at deshaw.com
Tue May 6 18:35:33 EDT 2008
>> Patch below makes freebcp to read password from stdin if '-' is
supplied
>> as a parameter for -P option
>
>Applied, thanks!
>
>--jkl
Hello,
Have you ever considered a generic solution for hiding freebcp, tsql,
etc passwords from prying eyes (eg, ps -ef)? Sybase SDK does this with
all of their utilities. Michael Peppler implemented a similar solution
in sqsh:
http://sqsh.cvs.sourceforge.net/sqsh/sqsh/src/sqsh_main.c?r1=1.4&r2=1.5
David
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