MySQL remote connection fails with “unknown authentication method”

Question

I am trying to remotely connect to MySQL server online from my local machine, but I am getting the following error:

Warning: PDO::__construct(): The server r         


        

Answer 1

I got this problem when running bitbucket pipelines with laravel 5.6 and default mysql database (set is services:).

solution was to use older version of mysql

definitions:
  services:
    mysql:
     image: mysql:5.6

PS: it was PHP 7.1