Hi, Michal!

It was incorrect.
I've now reopened CONC-312.
Sorry for this.

On Sep 25, Michal Schorm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can I get some explanation, why was
> https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/CONC-312
> closed as WON'T FIX ?
>
> --
>
> MySQL 8.0 implemented "caching_sha2_password" as its default
> authentification plugin / method.
> MariaDB doesn't have support for it so mariadb-connector-c cannot be used
> for MySQL 8.
>
> That makes problems for nearly every Linux OS, beacuse they chose MariaDB
> over MySQL as the default implemetation.
>
> I'd like to know the MariaDB stance to it.
> Do you see it as an issue as well?
> Are there any plans to deal with it? How?
>
> Michal Schorm

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
and security@mariadb.org