freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: FreeTDS Development Group

List archive

[freetds] Hiding passwords (was patch for freebcp: take password from stdin instead of command line)

From: "Wood, David" <David.Wood AT deshaw.com>
To: <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: jklowden AT freetds.org
Subject: [freetds] Hiding passwords (was patch for freebcp: take password from stdin instead of command line)
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 18:35:33 -0400

>> 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

[freetds] Hiding passwords (was patch for freebcp: take password from stdin instead of command line), Wood, David, 05/06/2008
- Re: [freetds] Hiding passwords (was patch for freebcp: take password from stdin instead of command line), James K. Lowden, 05/06/2008