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

Answer 2

In my case, I could access correctly with mysql.exe but not with mysqldump.exe.

The problem was the port for my connection was not the default one (3306) and I had to put the mysqldump port work with (-P3307)

mysqldump -u root -p -P3307 my_database > /path/backup_database

Answer 3

Putting -p as the first option worked for me on Windows Server 2012R2 (in cmd.exe as Admin).

mysqldump.exe –p --user=root  --databases DBname --result-file=C:\DBname.sql

Answer 4

Mysql replies with Access Denied with correct credentials when the mysql account has REQUIRE SSL on

The ssl_ca file (at a minimum) had to be provided in the connection paramiters.

Additional ssl parameters might be required and are documented here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/secure-connection-options.html

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Also posted here https://stackoverflow.com/a/39626932/1695680

Answer 5

You need to put backslashes in your password that contain shell metacharacters, such as !#'"`&;

Answer 6

This worked for me

mysqldump -u root -p mydbscheme > mydbscheme_dump.sql

after issuing the command it asks for a password:

Enter password:

entering the password will make the dump file.