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

Tried most of the above with no joy. Looking at my password, it had characters that might confuse a parser. I wrapped the password in quotes and the error was resolved. -p"a:@#$%^&+6>&FAEH"

Using 8.0