--user (-u)

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The username to use for the connection.

mariadb-shell [{--user | -u} <user_name>]

Option	Default Behavior	Argument
`--user` `-u`	If omitted, MariaDB Shell tries to connect with the name of the operating system user	MariaDB user name

To connect to a host named host.example.com:

$ mariadb-shell \
   --host host.example.com \
   --user user_name \
   --password 'user_password'

To use the short option names, the equivalent command is:

$ mariadb-shell \
   -h host.example.com \
   -u user_name \
   -p 'user_password'

Release Series	History
23.03	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 23.03.1.
23.02	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 23.02.1.
23.01	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 23.01.1.
22.12	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 22.12.1.
22.10	Present starting in MariaDB Shell 22.10.3.