MySQL password getting munged by powershell in windows - mysql

Question

I am trying to login to a new mysql server using powershell on my windows workstation. I already have it working in Cygwin but I need to test it in powershell.
mysql -h adams.server.com -u schema_owner_adam --ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY -p
I pasted my password in, that didn't work, then I started typing it in letter by letter multiple times like a dummy, every time it threw back the error:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'schema_owner_adam'#'1.2.4.8' (using password: YES)
After double-checking that I was not in fact a dummy, and going back to cygwin and being able to login fine there, I started getting suspicious of powershell and when I tried sending my password through like this:
-u schema_owner_adam:xxxxxx£on12CV
it came back with:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'schema_owner_adam:xxxxxxoon12CV'#'1.2.4.8' (using password: YES)
Spot the difference!
I assume that powershell is munging the £ character in my password in the same way when I type it into the password prompt.
How can I sort this one?
I am in the UK, maybe I need to set UTF-8 somehow?
PS C:\> echo $OutputEncoding
IsSingleByte : True
BodyName : us-ascii
EncodingName : US-ASCII
HeaderName : us-ascii
WebName : us-ascii
WindowsCodePage : 1252
IsBrowserDisplay : False
IsBrowserSave : False
IsMailNewsDisplay : True
IsMailNewsSave : True
EncoderFallback : System.Text.EncoderReplacementFallback
DecoderFallback : System.Text.DecoderReplacementFallback
IsReadOnly : True
CodePage : 20127

Answer 1

Honestly, I drop to CMD when accessing MySql command line and I get less odd behavior.
ISE will not allow interactive applications to run, so try it in a normal Powershell window first.
If that doesn't work drop from Powershell to CMD by typing:
C:>cmd

Answer 2

I would suggest putting an ampersand & before the command and then put the comand in double quotes "
Also the £ in the password won't be helping so try putting a tilde/back tick (which is an escape character in powershell) before the £ so the password would look like:
xxxxxx`£on12CV
In case you weren't aware, if you are using the -p option then you must put the password immediately afterwards without a space (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-command-options.html) whereas if you use the --password= option you can have a space.
Unfortunately I haven't got my laptop in front of me and my tablet doesn't have mysql on it so I can't test the command but try this:
$server = "adams.server.com"
$user = "schema_owner_adam"
$password = "xxxxxx`£on12CV"
&"mysql.exe" -h $server -u $user --ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY -p$password
Or if the password is still not working try replacing the last line with this:
&"mysql.exe" -h $server -u $user --ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY --password=$password
Alternativly the code for the other way you wrote is:
$server = "adams.server.com"
$user = "schema_owner_adam"
$password = "xxxxxx`£on12CV"
$userandpassword = $user + ":" + $password
&"mysql.exe" -h $server -u $userandpassword --ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY
Following your comment below, try this line of code that doesn't use any variables:
&"mysql.exe" --host="adams.server.com" --user="schema_owner_adam" --ssl-mode=VERIFY_IDENTITY --password="xxxxxx`£on12CV"
Let me know if this works and if not let me know what error it gives you. Then when I'm in front of a laptop later I'll have a proper look at it.