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

For me it worked when I omitted the password.

So mysqldump -u user dbname > dump.sql

Answer 2

I had the same error for last 2 days. Tried bunch of things. Nothing worked.
But this did work:
Create another user. Grant it everything.
mysqldump -u new_user db_name > db_name.sql //no error

Answer 3

I was having the same issue, for 30min! I found that I was using _p instead of -p, the terminal font confused me!

Answer 4

This solution might be one of the last to try/least likely to be the culprit, but this was my problem...

My problem was that the directory I was trying to dump to needed admin privileges to write to and that's what was causing the mysqldump command to return "Access Denied".

I set the dump file path to my desktop dir and then it worked.

This was on Windows.

Answer 5

Go to Start-> All Programs -> Accessories right click on Command Prompt click on Run as administrator

In the command prompt using CD command Go to MySQL bin folder and run the below command

mysqldump --user root --password=root --all-databases>dumps.sql

it will create dumps.sql file in the bin folder itself.

Answer 6

In Past same problem occurred to me after I copied the mysqldump statement from a MS Word file.

But When typing the statement directly, everything worked fine.

In hex editor the "-" of the not working statement was represented by the unicode char e2 80 93 (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2013/index.htm)

In sort, type password directly and check the copy paste code as the uni-code (or other encoding) strings might cause an issue..