Scrutinize security

scrutinize can specify user names and passwords as follows:

--user=username
-U username

Specifies the dbadmin user name. By default, scrutinize uses the user name of the invoking user.

--password=password -P password

Sets the database password as an argument to the scrutinize command. Use this option if the administrator account (default dbadmin) has password authentication. If you omit this option on a password-protected database, scrutinize returns a warning, unless the environment variable VSQL_PASSWORD is set.

Passwords with special characters must be enclosed with single quotes. For example:

$ scrutinize -P '@passWord**'
$ scrutinize --password='$password1*'

`-prompt-password` `-W`

Specifies to prompt users for their database password before scrutinize begins to collect data.