This one was a real hard nut to crack. My workstation ip address has changed and I could no longer connect to my MySQL server remotely. So far nothing new or interesting. I went to cPanel and added my new ip address to “Remote MySQL” – a list of ip addresses that are allowed to access the database server remotely. Being a cautious person, I also removed my old ip address while I was there.
So now I could connect remotely both from my IDE (via JDBC) and from my local mysql client but to my surprise, I was still getting access denied from mysqldump. Mhm…
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