It’s probably not a big deal for most desktop users, but, in general, it’s an unsafe practice to put anything sensitive like a password on the command line. Anyone on the system can see it with ps while it’s running. That only affects you if there are other users logged in at the same time. Also keep in mind that whatever you put on the command line is probably written to your shell’s history file. With the exception of physical access to the disk, that latter one should only pose a hazard when the information confers privileges beyond those of the user. Click https://twitter.com/moooker1
It’s probably not a big deal for most desktop users, but, in general, it’s an unsafe practice to put anything sensitive like a password on the command line. Anyone on the system can see it with ps while it’s running. That only affects you if there are other users logged in at the same time. Also keep in mind that whatever you put on the command line is probably written to your shell’s history file. With the exception of physical access to the disk, that latter one should only pose a hazard when the information confers privileges beyond those of the user. Click https://twitter.com/moooker1