Access Denied!!

Hi there guys I typed the following code in my Terminal (MAC) command line and received the following error..

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -uroot -p mysql
Enter password:

ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)
[MyG5:/usr/local/mysql] hebisr%

What exactly Is this telling me?

This is telling you one of 3 things:

1. Your password is wrong or you are typing it in incorrectly.

or

2. You do not have a password for the "root" account. Thus you do not need the -p in your syntax.

or

3. Your account does not have access to the "mysql" users database. (which it should though since you are using root)