MySQL 8.0.4 : New Default Authentication Plugin : caching_sha2_password
Starting with MySQL 8.0.4, we are changing the default authentication plugin for MySQL server from mysql_native_password to caching_sha2_password. Correspondingly, libmysqlclient will now use caching_sha2_password as the default authentication mechanism, too.
Why did we do it?
The advantage of mysql_native_password is that it support challenge-response mechanism which is very quick and does not require encrypted connection.…
Source: MySQL 8.0.4 : New Default Authentication Plugin : caching_sha2_password
