mysqldump Error 1045 Access denied despite correct passwords etc

Question

This is a tricky one, I have the following output:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES) when tr

Answer 1

If you're able to connect to the database using mysql, but you get an error for mysqldump, then the problem may be that you lack privileges to lock the table.

Try the --single-transaction option in that case.

mysqldump -h database.example.com -u mydbuser -p mydatabase --single-transaction  > /home/mylinuxuser/mydatabase.sql