Hi niljoshi
Could you give a concrete example of what you have to do now, that such an options file would relieve you from? Just to make sure that I don't assume something you do not intend.

Hi johan.wikman,

With MySQL, we can create .my.cnf file for storing client related settings including username and password so while connecting with mysql, we don't need to give user/pass in command line. Can we create the same kind of file with maxscale named .maxctrl.cnf or something? so we can store user/pass details in that file for maxctrl command line and can secure the password details?

niljoshiThanks, that made the intent quite clear!

Now at startup maxctrl looks for a file ~/.maxctrl.cnf and if found, it reads parameters values from the section [maxctrl] and uses those as defaults.

So, the following content would relieve you from typing the username and password.

[maxctrl]

user = <my-username>

password = <my-password>