Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2008, at 16:05, Brian Aker wrote: > >> We should fix the -p thing? How often does this trip people up? > > > Hah - I was just writing that email too. > > It doesn't trip me up anymore, but even after ~10 years I still think > "what the hell - how dumb is this" every time I type "-P" rather than > "-p" for port number (which I use all the time; passwords on the command > line should be the hard one to type). > > Maybe make -p for port and only keep a long version (--password) for > password.
I agree. How about also - instead of doing: drizzle -p To indicate that you want to be prompted for a password, how about the client catching the "I need auth" response and then prompting for one if the terminal istty()? Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
