Bug #5955 mysqldump asks for password even if it is specified on the cmdline
Submitted: 7 Oct 2004 11:51 Modified: 7 Oct 2004 18:54
Reporter: Jan Kneschke Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: mysqldump Command-line Client Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:4.1.5 OS:Windows (windows)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[7 Oct 2004 11:51] Jan Kneschke 
Description:
If my.cnf specifies 'password' in the client-section it can't be overriden be specifying it on the commandline. 

This works since mysql 4.1.4 for the mysql-client, but is still not working in mysqldump.

How to repeat:
$ cat my.cnf
[client]
password

$ mysqldump --password=secret dbname
Password:

Suggested fix:
let mysqldump behave as the mysql-client and take the password from the commandline.
[7 Oct 2004 11:52] Jan Kneschke 
removed show-stopper tag
[7 Oct 2004 18:54] Jani Tolonen 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

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available version, including the bugfix, yourself. More information 
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