Re: [Savannah-hackers] Cron <address@hidden> sf_www --user root --password ?????

[Mark H. Weaver]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

>  > For now, I changed /etc/cron.d/savannah to run scripts with no
>  > parameters.  These scripts are readable only by root, and they contain
>  > the password.  This will at least prevent the password from going out in
>  > email, but it will still be in the command line.
> 
>  I changed it back, it was only necessary to remove the arguments. The 
> necessary information is found in the ~/.my.cnf which is only root readable.
> Sorry for the trouble.

Okay, this is much better.

>  > In the meantime, could someone please change root's mysql password to
>  > something else, since the old one is now sitting on a bunch of
>  > people's hard drives by now?  Once you've done that, please change the
>  > scripts in /subversions/sourceforge/bin/*_daily appropriately, and there
>  > are probably other places that need to changed as well.
> 
>  I did that and checked the other places.

Thank you, my mind is at ease now.  :)

        Mark