Comments on: Upgrade your Libraries: Authentication Plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’ Cannot be Loaded https://www.percona.com/blog/upgrade-your-libraries-authentication-plugin-caching_sha2_password-cannot-be-loaded/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:56:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Zafar Malik https://www.percona.com/blog/upgrade-your-libraries-authentication-plugin-caching_sha2_password-cannot-be-loaded/#comment-10974190 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:56:02 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=80586#comment-10974190 I have latest mysql version on db server 8.0.34 and also using latest percona tool kit version on same db server but all percona utilities like pt_kill, pt_archiver and pt_online_schema_change etc are throwing same error as not getting this plugin as oracle has removed it and merged in some other library in mysql8.0. So can you please help how we can use authenticate to percona utilities via caching_sha2_password plugin. Even I tried to authenticate via socket based authentication but no luck.

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