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  • 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




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