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Ke Jia commented on HIVE-13589:
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Hi [~vihangk1], [~Ferd], current patch can prompt for the password when the
password is null or empty string. Howerver,if the case with "-p" option does
not follow the specified option which are added in the Beeline.java
[L290-L391], the Apache Common CLI will consider the option as the value of
"-p" argument. For example, "hive --service beeline -u
jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000 -n root -p --force=true -e 'show tables;'",
because the "--force" option is not added in the Beeline.java, the Apache
Common CLI set "--force=true" to the "-p" option. So when it execute the code
which you mentioned above, the password is not null and will not prompt for
password. Avoiding the bad user-experience, do you think we need to add all the
options in the Beeline.java?
> beeline - support prompt for password with '-u' option
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> Key: HIVE-13589
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13589
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Beeline
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
> Assignee: Ke Jia
> Attachments: HIVE-13589.1.patch, HIVE-13589.2.patch,
> HIVE-13589.3.patch
>
>
> Specifying connection string using commandline options in beeline is
> convenient, as it gets saved in shell command history, and it is easy to
> retrieve it from there.
> However, specifying the password in command prompt is not secure as it gets
> displayed on screen and saved in the history.
> It should be possible to specify '-p' without an argument to make beeline
> prompt for password.
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