MySQL 8.0+ error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

Upgraded MySQL to v8 and starting getting connection errors due to how MySQL 8 defaults to auth_socket connections. Applications that use passwords will fail and generate the error:

PHP with MySQL 8.0+ error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

The solution is to change the default authentication method to mysql_native_password.

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

Replace password with your password, if you don't use a password then enter it as ''

Thanks to this stackoverflow post

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