Hi,

> (Using FB 1.5.1 under Linux) - when connecting to the isql command line
> client, is there any way of providing the password either interactively or
> using an environment variable or file? (It seems I can either provide the
> entire connection string as command line options and risk having the

password

> visibile to all users on the local system, or enter the CONNECT statement
> manually, which is inconvenient).

As far as I know, the following would work:

ISC_USER=username
ISC_PASSWORD=password

That is, if it didn't change to something Firebird specific yet.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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