On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:25:19PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Eric G Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes: > EGM> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login > >> to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...etc... > EGM> > EGM> Couldn't you put the password in a variable? Would the real value show > EGM> up, or just the variable name? > EGM> > EGM> #! /bin/sh > EGM> MY_PASS=Xhef#&8wertyqP[, > EGM> > EGM> exec mysql [args] $MY_PASS > > The real password would show up.
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