MySQL Access Denied despite correct authentication

[matt_buckley]

I've been following the documentation for Magento 2.3 and am now stuck while trying to set it up on the command line.  I'm executing the following:

 bin/magento setup:install --base-url=http://localhost/magento --db-host=localhost --db-name=magento --db-user=magento --db-password=[password] --backend-frontname=admin --admin-firstname=name --admin-lastname=name --admin-email=admin@test.com --admin-user=admin --admin-password=[password] --language=en_US --currency=USD --timezone=America/Chicago --use-rewrites=1

Obviously, in place of [password] I have my actual passwords.

I get the following response:

SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'magento'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

This response would indicate that my user or password or database are incorrectly entered.  But they aren't.  I have checked my command many times, and am fully able to login with

mysql -u magento -p

with the same password.

What can I do?  What's going on?

[matt_buckley · Accepted solution]

I figured out the issue: I didn't escape the special characters in my password.

I was able to run the command successfully by adding a backslash before the special characters (! # ' " ` & ; and $).

[Tarandeep Singh]

@matt_buckleyGood information Matt!

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