: argument --password/-p: expected one argument Examples from AI knowledge base:

az login --service-principal -u http://azure-cli-2016-08-05-14-31-15 -p VerySecret --tenant contoso.onmicrosoft.com Log in with a service principal using client secret. Use -p=secret if the first character of the password is '-'. az login --service-principal -u http://azure-cli-2016-08-05-14-31-15 -p ~/mycertfile.pem --tenant contoso.onmicrosoft.com Log in with a service principal using client certificate. az login -u johndoe@contoso.com -p VerySecret Log in with user name and password. This doesn't work with Microsoft accounts or accounts that have two-factor authentication enabled. Use -p=secret if the first character of the password is '-'. https://aka.ms/cli_ref Read more about the command in reference docs

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