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

I just ran into this after a fresh install of MySQL 5.6.16.

Oddly, it works without the password specified or flagged:

mysqldump -u root myschema mytable > dump.sql