Re: asdbget and the -p parameter

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:28:26AM -0600, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote:
> 
> I got the cvs version a couple days ago. Compiled it and all the problem I 
> had before are gone. But I have a new problem the -p parameter is gone. I 
> realize that it was taken out for security reasons. Not having the password 
> in your bash history. Well that blows the hell out of my plan to use asdbget 
> in a cron job. Can you put it back in. When it's found on the command line 
> use that password if not found ask for the password. Compromise.

You can automate that by setting the ASDBGET_PASSWORD environment variable,
then it will no longer prompt. Speaking of which, the -p option should
probably now force asdbget to prompt even if ASDBGET_PASSWORD is set..

... hack hack hack ... done in CVS.  Also, ASDBGET_PASSWORD is now
documented in the usage message.

> 
> ttyl
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-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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