MySQL 8.0 Release Notes
MySQL 8.0 Source Code Documentation
Pre-General Availability Draft: 2017-07-17
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The following sections describe pluggable authentication methods available in MySQL and the plugins that implement these methods. For general discussion of the authentication process, see Section 6.3.10, “Pluggable Authentication”.
The default plugin is mysql_native_password
unless the
default_authentication_plugin
system variable is set otherwise.