Geoff Montee (Inactive) added a comment - 2019-07-12 19:38 As a workaround, you can add the user name and password to ~/.my.cnf. e.g.: [mariabackup] user=mariabackup password=mypassword See here: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariabackup-overview/#authentication-and-privileges

Richard Lane added a comment - 2020-07-27 14:11 - edited I would like to also vote for this enhancement. We have strict requirements for not using passwords in command line and will not comply to DFSEC requirements without at least an environment variable to supply password vs. command line. Geoff, the workaround is actually worse since it is in plain text in a config files, which is also a major violation. Even if the file has root+mysql read only permissions.

Sergei Golubchik added a comment - 2024-05-07 07:45 It changes the behavior in an incompatible way, existing scripts stop working (we had it in buildbot). But the new behavior is compatible with other mariadb command-line tools, so let's still do it, but in 11.6+

Daniel Black added a comment - 2024-08-14 03:31 Now that this was merged , was this break in behaviour intended?   + docker exec mariadbcontainer18598 mariabackup --backup --target-dir=/backup/d --user root --password soverysecret mariabackup: Deprecated program name. It will be removed in a future release, use '/usr/bin/mariadb-backup' instead Enter password: [00] 2024-08-14 01:49:02 mariabackup: Error: unknown argument: 'soverysecret' $ rr record -n extra/mariabackup/mariadb-backup -S /tmp/build-mariadb-server-11.6.sock --backup --target-dir=/tmp/d --user root --password soverysecret rr: Saving execution to trace directory `/home/dan/.local/share/rr/mariadb-backup-0'. Enter password: [00] 2024-08-14 13:10:09 mariabackup: Error: unknown argument: 'soverysecret'     ... Breakpoint 1, xb_get_one_option (opt=0x1761510 <xb_client_options+4704>, argument=0x0) at /home/dan/repos/mariadb-server-11.6/extra/mariabackup/xtrabackup.cc:2226 2226 switch(opt->id) { (gdb) p *opt $1 = {name = 0xeffdfe "password", id = 112, comment = 0xef7100 "This option specifies the password to use when connecting to the database. It accepts a string argument. See mysql --help for details.", value = 0x0, u_max_value = 0x0, typelib = 0x0, var_type = 9, arg_type = OPT_ARG, def_value = 0, min_value = 0, max_value = 0, deprecation_substitute = 0x0, block_size = 0, app_type = 0x0} So argument is null for password. So long args have to have --password=thesecret fix: https://github.com/MariaDB/mariadb-docker/commit/1637a68a195a27f4a89fa8e6b9d0c13a1dcb015e

Daniel Black added a comment - 2024-08-14 04:04 - edited For release notes: The mariadb-backup --password thissit syntax is no longer supported - use mariadb-backup --password=thissit