Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' is not supported

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I had the same problem and passing auth_plugin='mysql_native_password' did not work, because I accidentally installed mysql-connector instead of mysql-connector-python (via pip3). Just leaving this here in case it helps someone.

Per Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication

In MySQL 8.0, caching_sha2_password is the default authentication plugin rather than mysql_native_password.

You're using mysql_native_password, which is no longer the default. Assuming you're using the correct connector for your version you need to specify the auth_plugin argument when instantiating your connection object

cnx = mysql.connector.connect(user='lcherukuri', password='password',
                              host='127.0.0.1', database='test',
                              auth_plugin='mysql_native_password')

From those same docs:

The connect() method supports an auth_plugin argument that can be used to force use of a particular plugin. For example, if the server is configured to use sha256_password by default and you want to connect to an account that authenticates using mysql_native_password, either connect using SSL or specify auth_plugin='mysql_native_password'.

This question is already answered here and this solution works.

caching sha2 password is not supported mysql

Just try this command :

pip install mysql-connector-python

None of the above solution work for me. I tried and very frustrated until I watched the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGinfzlp0fE

pip uninstall mysql-connector work on some computer and it might not work for other computer.

I did the followings:

The mysql-connector causes problem.

1. pip uninstall mysql-connector

   The following may not need but I removed both connector completely.

2. pip uninstall mysql-connector-python

   re-install mysql-conenct-python connector.

3. pip install mysql-connector-python

I also got a similar error

  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\authentication.py", line 191, in get_auth_plugin
    "Authentication plugin '{0}' is not supported".format(plugin_name))
mysql.connector.errors.NotSupportedError: Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' is not supported

You have probably installed mysql-connector instead of mysql-connector-python. So you need to install it again for python3:

pip3 install mysql-connector-python

Modify Mysql encryption

ALTER USER 'lcherukuri'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';