Comment 7 for bug 1668903

Yes, that's right. Alternatively, you can just pass -p and it will prompt for the password.

If I had to guess, this is a buggy implementation of the code to elide the password from the comm of the process (so you don't see it in ps aux, I think). I wonder if it doesn't recognize the space between -p and the password, so it treats the password as a positional argument.

Oddly, if I build the same source without the flags we pass during the .deb build, I don't get this behavior.

While annoying, there is an easy workaround for now.