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@jeroenvermeulen jeroenvermeulen commented Oct 25, 2019

The purpose is to keep the password out of the Linux process list.
The MySQL Manual explains this can also be insecure. During my testing only the root user and the process owner were able to view the enviroment variables using ps aue. This is a lot more secure than having the password in cleartext in the process list.

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