mysqldump access denied

Question

When I try to backup using mysqldump from ssh, I run the following command on machine 10.64.1.1. It gives the following error.

mysqldump --user=test -p=passwor

Answer 1

I know the topic is very old, but I happened to have the same issue. I figured out that the problem was just the special character used in the password. In fact they must be escaped with the anti slash: --password=123\@456 or using signle quotes --password='123@456'

Answer 2

In windows, I resolved it by making a directory and then dumping *.sql file in backup directory.

C:\backup

There are no issues with commands :
Remove the [ ] square brackets

mysqldump -u[username] -p[password] -h[ip] yourdb > C:\backup\sqlfile.sql

It worked for me:)

Answer 3

One more possible cause can be the place you are trying to create dump. Writing mysqldump -u[username] -p yourdb > D:\backup\sqlfile.sql instead of mysqldump -u[username] -p yourdb > sqlfile.sql resolved my problem.