Hi Robin, Is this a shell issue, rather than a GDAL one? The dollar sign makes me suspect that a Unix shell is interpreting "robin$42" as "the string 'robin' and the value of variable $42" before it gets into GDAL. My terminal would interpret it as the following: $ echo robin$42 robin
and I'd need to escape the dollar symbol to get the text verbatim: $ echo robin\$42 robin$42 Cheers, Daniel On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 16:35, Robin Wilson via gdal-dev < gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m using ogr2ogr to load a GeoPackage file into a PostGIS database. I > initially tried using a command like this: > > ogr2ogr --debug ON -f PostgreSQL PG:"host=<IP> user=<user> > password=robin$42 dbname=data sslmode=require" file.gpkg -nln table_name > > However, this doesn’t work, and I always get an error: > > FATAL: password authentication failed for user “<user>" > > If I restructure the command to use the alternative postgresql:// > connection string like this, then it works: > > ogr2ogr --debug ON -f PostgreSQL > 'postgresql://<user>:robin$42@<IP>/data?sslmode=require’ > file.gpkg -nln table_name > > I don’t remember running into this problem before when connecting to > PostGIS databases using the PG: connection string, so I’m wondering whether > my shell is doing something strange with my password? Obviously I don’t > want to share my actual password, but it has a $ in it, and I wonder > whether somehow this is causing problems - but only when using the PG: > connection string. > > Any suggestions welcome, > > Best regards, > > Robin > > > Dr Robin Wilson > www.rtwilson.com > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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