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.