[SQOOP-1364] When we try to execute a saved Sqoop job, no matter what, it always prompts for a password

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.3
• Component/s: tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sai Karthik Ganguru
• Created: 08/Jul/14 13:53
• Updated: 08/Jul/14 19:25

Description

When an already existing Sqoop job is executed, it always prompts for a password. Even if we include --password in the CLI:

$sqoop job --exec PHL – --password abcd

*PHL is the stored Sqoop job name.

After executing the above command, it prompts for a password and even if we enter some junk value (not necessarily the password) it continues to execute fine.

Steps to be taken:

Either it should not prompt for a password when we pass the --password parameter

or

If the Sqoop job was intended to prompt for a password always, then it should not take any junk value that is passed onto it.

Note: If we can remove the prompt for a password when the --password option is used in the command, this will benefit people running Sqoop jobs through schedulers like Autosys (which will not be responsive to the password prompts that the Sqoop job throws).