I'm getting an "Access denied for user" error message when trying to connect to a MySQL database using DBI. I have no problem connecting with  mysql -u borp -p $auth from command line, and the user borp has all privileges for borp.* I'm pretty stuck... The relevant bits of code:

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

my $auth   = &read_prompt("Authorize: ");
$auth           =~ s/\n//;   ############## Added this to fix.
my $output = &connect("show tables");
exit;

sub read_prompt
{
        my $message     = $_[0];
        print $message;
        system ("stty -echo");
        my $out         = <STDIN>;
        system ("stty echo");
        print "\n";
        return $out;
}

sub connect
{
        my $query       = $_[0];
        my $dbh         = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:borp:localhost:3306'
+,'borp',$auth) or die "Unable to connect to db: ".$DBI::errstr."\n";
        my $sth         = $dbh->prepare($query);
        my @result      = ();
        $sth->execute();
        if($query=~m/^select|^show|^desc/i){
                @result = $sth->fetchrow_array();
        }
        $sth->finish();
        $dbh->disconnect;
        return \@result;
}
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Resolved. ><