Re: Strange Password Issue

[Felix Geerinckx]

Tim Pinkawa wrote:
> I'm using mysqldump in a shell script so I need to pass my password in the command line. I'm
> using the following command:
>
> mysqldump -u tim -password mypassword thedatabase > backup.sql
>
> The error message:
>
> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'tim'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Try the following:

mysqldump -u tim -pmypassword thedatabase > backup.sql

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felix
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