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

Try to remove the space when using the -p-option. This works for my OSX and Linux mysqldump:

mysqldump -u user -ppassword ...