Authentication plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’ cannot be loaded

You can change the encryption of the user’s password by altering the user with below Alter command : ALTER USER ‘username’@’ip_address’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ‘password’; OR We can avoid this error by make it work with old password plugin: First change the authentication plugin in my.cnf file for Linux / my.ini file in Windows: [mysqld] … Read more