diff --git a/railties/lib/commands/dbconsole.rb b/railties/lib/commands/dbconsole.rb
index b81997aa59064..17acb7b68f7ee 100644
--- a/railties/lib/commands/dbconsole.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/commands/dbconsole.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
 require 'yaml'
 require 'optparse'
 
+include_password = false
+
 OptionParser.new do |opt|
-  opt.banner = "Usage: dbconsole [environment]"
+  opt.banner = "Usage: dbconsole [options] [environment]"
+  opt.on("-p", "--include-password", "Automatically provide the database from database.yml") do |v|
+    include_password = true
+  end
   opt.parse!(ARGV)
   abort opt.to_s unless (0..1).include?(ARGV.size)
 end
@@ -31,10 +36,13 @@ def find_cmd(*commands)
     'port'      => '--port',
     'socket'    => '--socket',
     'username'  => '--user',
-    'password'  => '--password',
     'encoding'  => '--default-character-set'
   }.map { |opt, arg| "#{arg}=#{config[opt]}" if config[opt] }.compact
 
+  if config['password'] && include_password
+    args << "--password=#{config['password']}"
+  end
+
   args << config['database']
 
   exec(find_cmd('mysql5', 'mysql'), *args)
@@ -43,7 +51,7 @@ def find_cmd(*commands)
   ENV['PGUSER']     = config["username"] if config["username"]
   ENV['PGHOST']     = config["host"] if config["host"]
   ENV['PGPORT']     = config["port"].to_s if config["port"]
-  ENV['PGPASSWORD'] = config["password"].to_s if config["password"]
+  ENV['PGPASSWORD'] = config["password"].to_s if config["password"] && include_password
   exec(find_cmd('psql'), config["database"])
 
 when "sqlite"