Redis redis-cli support not default user with auth from command line.

Want redis-cli to be able to connect as non-default user with AUTH.

Currently there is no way to do this using the -a and -u methods for redis-cli. Ideally, I would like to connect using either method.

Current usage (from website):

redis-cli -a myUnguessablePazzzzzword123 ping redis-cli -u redis://p%40ssw0rd@redis-16379.hosted.com:16379/0 ping

Proposed usage:

redis-cli -a acl_username:myUnguessablePazzzzzword123 ping redis-cli -u redis://acl_username:p%40ssw0rd@redis-16379.hosted.com:16379/0 ping

I'd would also be okay if an entirely new option was purposed for this functionality, if it's deemed too kludgy to implement the above suggestions, say like a '-U' argument.

Note: I'm aware that you can connect, then auth for a non-default users, but it makes writing shell scripts and ansible playbooks more challenging without the requested functionality.

Comment From: oranagra

are you missing this:

"  --user <username>  Used to send ACL style 'AUTH username pass'. Needs -a.\n"
"  --pass <password>  Alias of -a for consistency with the new --user option.\n"

however, i see that -u (URL) can be improved:

    /* Extract user info. */
    if ((userinfo = strchr(curr,'@'))) {
        if ((username = strchr(curr, ':')) && username < userinfo) {
            /* If provided, username is ignored. */
            curr = username + 1;
        }

Comment From: jrtaisto

I sure did. This can be closed out unless the redis URI is going to be addressed to allow access. Thanks.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Oran Agra notifications@github.com wrote:

are you missing this:

" --user Used to send ACL style 'AUTH username pass'. Needs -a.\n"" --pass Alias of -a for consistency with the new --user option.\n"

however, i see that -u (URL) can be improved:

/* Extract user info. */
if ((userinfo = strchr(curr,'@'))) {
    if ((username = strchr(curr, ':')) && username < userinfo) {
        /* If provided, username is ignored. */
        curr = username + 1;
    }

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Comment From: oranagra

already handled, will probably be in the next release. thanks