django.db.utils.operationalError: (2059,“Authentication Plugin 'caching_sha2_password'”)

Question

I am trying to connect my django project \'mysite\' to mysql. I made a user in mysql and granted it all privileges to access the project. These are the changes I made to set

Answer 1

@Kol_ya created new user using CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password'; where username = creation of new username and password = current password to login for root(username created with caching_sha2). This step allowed me to connect to MySql Server 8.0.13 without having caching_sha2 authentication error. Looked for solution several threads but this one helped just like that. Thanks @kol_ya

Suggestion to people who are having caching_sha2 issue. In server side make sure your user authentication type is standard not caching_sha2_password.