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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:57:30 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> Apart from the fact that NULL is a terrible password, I'd still be more
> comfortable to allow a NULL password as a user defined option on the
> command line.  If not -W NULL, 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.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 18.12.2012, <08:55>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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