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On 12/18/2012 05:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>   what about '-w -' or a long-only option
>> >  like --null-pwd?
> I'd say, the latter.
> "-w -" looks like you are trying to read password from STDIN.

I heartily concur for two reasons:

1) '-w -' really looks like like stdin/out

2) '-' is actually a valid password

Let's go for --null-pwd

bartels

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