Oh monks, who are wise in the ways of Perl, I need your advice. I am trying to connect to MySQL using DBI but things are going awry. I have this in my script: 
    my $dsn = 'DBI:mysql:ciprestest:localhost';
    my $dbuser = 'cipresquery';
    my $dbpass = 'iamstupid';
    my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $dbuser, $dbpass)
        or die "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;

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But all I get is: 
DBI connect('database=ciprestest;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306','',...) fai
+led: Access denied for user: 'rvosa@localhost' (Using password: NO)

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In other words, the user name ($dbuser) and password ($dbpass) I define seem to be ignored when DBI tries to connect, and it uses my cygwin user name (rvosa) instead. Everything works fine when I connect to mysql from the terminal: mysql -u cipresquery -p'iamstupid' ciprestest and the script does connect when I change the mysql privileges so that user name and password aren't required but that's obviously not what I want. What could be going on? I tried different permutations for quotes around the DBI->connect() arguments, concatenated them all separated by colons, tried "user=cipresquery" for $dbuser and so on but to no avail.

In reply to DBI confusion by rvosa

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