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# MySQL 8.0.4 introduced 'caching_sha2_password' as its default authentication plugin.
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# It is faster and provides better security then the previous default authentication plugin.
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# Until now (09/2018), it does not work with some other software (eg. MariaDB client, MariaDB connectors,  ...)
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# This configuration file changes MySQL default server configuration, so it behaves the same way as in MySQL 5.7.
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# To change the behaviour back to the upstream default, comment out the following lines:
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[mysqld]
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default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password