how can I prevent the password from being listed in mysqlbackup output

[John Sebastian]

I issue the following mysqlbackup command:

mysqlbackup --user=$USERNAME --password=$PASSWORD --backup-dir=$BACKUPDIR --with-timestamp backup-and-apply-log>$LOGFILE 2>&1

The output log file has an INFO section and it shows the password used in clear text. See clip from output of the above command below:


MySQL Enterprise Backup version 3.8.0 [2012/07/27]
Copyright (c) 2003, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

mysqlbackup: INFO: Starting with following command line ...
mysqlbackup --user=eiadba --password=realpasswordshown
--backup-dir=/u02/mysql_backups --with-timestamp backup-and-apply-log


I'm not seeing a switch to turn off this behavior. Maybe I've not looked hard enough.

Can anyone comment?