Outdated advice on MYSQL authentication method
The installation guide says:
- In MySQL 8 the default authentication plugin changes from
mysql_native_password
tocaching_sha2_password
. This may cause issues with your PHP layer. Fortunately you can revert this change by specifying your chosen authentication plugin in your MySQL configuration:
[mysqld] default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password
This text was introduced 3 years ago. It doesn't specify what the issue is but think it is probably out of date now since according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59231143/does-mysqli-have-support-for-caching-sha2-password-in-php-7-4 PHP 7.4 supports caching_sha2_password
and we currently recommend PHP 8.1 or 8.2.
Given than 'mysql_native_password' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of MySQL I think we should remove this text.