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Re: [freetds] Passing username and password to bsqldb other than by command line

From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
To: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>, FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [freetds] Passing username and password to bsqldb other than by command line
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:18:41 +0100

2016-08-24 6:41 GMT+01:00 James K. Lowden <james.k.lowden AT icloud.com>:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:25:11 -0600
> Dominic Jones <jonesd AT xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to pass the database username and password to the
>> bsqldb utility other than by using command line arguments?
>
> If Kerberos or similar is configured, any FreeTDS application can
> take advantage of it. It's documented for tsql. Glancing at the
> code, it looks like it's meant to work in bsqldb.
>

Another option to avoid clear text password in the command line is to
pass "-" in the command line and provide password as the first line of
input.

Frediano

[freetds] Passing username and password to bsqldb other than by command line, Dominic Jones, 08/23/2016
- Re: [freetds] Passing username and password to bsqldb other than by command line, James K. Lowden, 08/24/2016
  - Re: [freetds] Passing username and password to bsqldb other than by command line, Frediano Ziglio, 08/26/2016