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Vihang Karajgaonkar commented on HIVE-13589:
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[~Ferd] I agree that we should not change the behavior of -p argument since it
will break backwards compatibility. Adding another option to achieve the same
purpose seems to be a overkill. Beeline should be smart enough to prompt for
the password if there is no password given at the command line.
eg:
1. beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000" -n username
> beeline should prompt for the password.
2. beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000" -n username -p <password is
expected because -p is provided>
If we can achieve (1) above within beeline, I think that should be sufficient
to solve this issue without any work-arounds mentioned by [~thejas] in the
first comment.
> 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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