[drupal-support] Installation issues

[Alejandro Exojo]

El Domingo, 24 de Abril de 2005 21:43, Eric Scouten escribió:
> If you've been given a username and password by someone else who runs
> the MySQL server, you *must* put a space between the -u and the user
> name and you must *not* put a space between the -p and the password.
> (Yes, I know this is confusing.) Thus:
>
>     $ mysql -u whoami -psecret drupal

I really discourage this. If someone in the machine reads your .bash_history 
(asuming you use bash), or runs px in the machine, can steal your password.

In all mysql versions I've used, running just "-u foo -p" will ask your 
password interactively, solving the problem from above.

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