During our work in support, we see this again and again: I try to connect to MySQL and am getting a 1045 error, and most times it comes accompanied with &but I am sure my user and password are OK.  So we decided it was worth showing other reasons this error may occur. MySQL 1045 [&]

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/07/05/fixing-a-mysql-1045-error/