MySQL credentials not taken from file

[Attila Szucs]

Whenever I try to pass MySQL credentials to ec2-consistent-snapshot, I get the following error:

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DBI connect(';host=localhost','root',...) failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at /usr/bin/ec2-consistent-snapshot line 266
ec2-consistent-snapshot: ERROR: Unable to connect to MySQL on localhost as root at /usr/bin/ec2-consistent-snapshot line 266.
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According to this, ec2-consistent-snapshot doesn't even try to use password. I have the .my.cnf file in my home folder, and it looks like this:
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[client]
user= root
pass= v3rysecret
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MySQL console command does log in without asking for password, so the file is set correctly.
I get the same result if I try to use "ec2-consistent-snapshot --mysql --mysql-defaults-file ~/.my.cnf ", but it works fine if I use the --mysql-username and --mysql-password parameters.

The command line what I use is as follows:
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ec2-consistent-snapshot --region eu-west-1 --mysql --description "`hostname -s`_db-backup [`date +\"%Y.%m.%d. %T\"`]" `cat /etc/ec2-volumeid_db`
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It's an Ubuntu 12.04 x64

[Bradd Szonye (bszonye)]

While the mysql client recognizes both "pass=" and "password=" in the [client] section, ec2-consistent-snapshot only recognizes "password=", causing the behavior above. Note that some clients only recognize "pass=" instead. The script should probably accept either.