Repository: sqoop Updated Branches: refs/heads/trunk 1eca8219c -> 8b6eb33f1
SQOOP-1970: Add warning about trailing whitespace characters when using password file to User guide (Jarek Jarcec Cecho via Abraham Elmahrek) Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/sqoop/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/sqoop/commit/8b6eb33f Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/sqoop/tree/8b6eb33f Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/sqoop/diff/8b6eb33f Branch: refs/heads/trunk Commit: 8b6eb33f1720f9b25732903a5519d91587e31c39 Parents: 1eca821 Author: Abraham Elmahrek <[email protected]> Authored: Mon Jan 5 17:02:20 2015 -0800 Committer: Abraham Elmahrek <[email protected]> Committed: Mon Jan 5 17:02:20 2015 -0800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- src/docs/user/connecting.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/sqoop/blob/8b6eb33f/src/docs/user/connecting.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/src/docs/user/connecting.txt b/src/docs/user/connecting.txt index fd812c0..6f31c60 100644 --- a/src/docs/user/connecting.txt +++ b/src/docs/user/connecting.txt @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ $ sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://database.example.com/employees \ --username venkatesh --password-file ${user.home}/.password ---- +WARNING: Sqoop will read entire content of the password file and use it as +a password. This will include any trailing white space characters such as +new line characters that are added by default by most of the text editors. +You need to make sure that your password file contains only characters +that belongs to your password. On the command line you can use command ++echo+ with switch +-n+ to store password without any trailing white space +characters. For example to store password +secret+ you would call ++echo -n "secret" > password.file+. + Another way of supplying passwords is using the +-P+ argument which will read a password from a console prompt.
