Problem in using az login password with special char

[syedhamjath]

Describe the bug

Special chars in password are not handled properly. No matter what format I use it always ends at the ')' parenthesis.

Command Name
``
az login --username --password "+SybA?;E)UWYsn12"
az login --username --password '+SybA?;E)UWYsn12'

Errors:

UWYsn12 was unexpected at this time.
C:\>  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\wbin\\..\python.exe" -IBm azure.cli login --username <username> --password +SybA?;E)UWYsn12

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Create a user account and use close parenthesis char in password
• Use Az login to login to account

Expected Behavior

Password string is not fully read, it stop till parenthesis

Environment Summary

Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0
Python 3.10.8
Installer: MSI

azure-cli 2.42.0 *

Extensions:
databricks 0.8.0
datafactory 0.7.0

Dependencies:
msal 1.20.0
azure-mgmt-resource 21.1.0b1

Additional Context

[yonzhan]

Jiashuo Li (@jiasli) for awareness

[bebound]

Try this az login --username --password '"+SybA?;E)UWYsn12"'

[keystroke]

In case other folks encounter this, using a password for a service principal login via azure CLI command line, and calling az commands from within a PowerShell session, you need to escape the quotes to pass to azure CLI.

Assuming you have the service principal client secret in the variable $clientSecret, you should call like this:

az login --service-principal -u $clientId -p="`"$clientSecret`"" --tenant $tenantId

This ensures that the quotes are not stripped when PowerShell parses the arguments before passing them down to az exe / python.

[jiasli]

See #15529