title: Error 002061 - Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' reported error: Authentication requires secure connection
body: <p>MySQL version - 8.0.23 on RDS
  I am replicating my local database to AWS RDS MySQL instance. But I am getting this error:</p>
  <pre><code>2021-11-11T22:43:09.091947Z 378 [ERROR] [MY-010584] [Repl] Slave I/O for channel '': error connecting to master 'replicator@localhost:3306' - retry-time: 60 retries: 1 message: Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' reported error: Authentication requires secure connection. Error_code: MY-002061
  </code></pre>
  <p>My RDS slave status:</p>
  <pre><code>*************************** 1. row ***************************
                 Slave_IO_State: Connecting to master
                    Master_Host: localhost
                    Master_User: replicator
                    Master_Port: 3306
                  Connect_Retry: 60
                Master_Log_File: DESKTOP-7DL3FOM-bin.000010
            Read_Master_Log_Pos: 700
                 Relay_Log_File: relaylog.000001
                  Relay_Log_Pos: 4
          Relay_Master_Log_File: DESKTOP-7DL3FOM-bin.000010
               Slave_IO_Running: Connecting
              Slave_SQL_Running: Yes
                Replicate_Do_DB:
            Replicate_Ignore_DB:
             Replicate_Do_Table:
         Replicate_Ignore_Table: innodb_memcache.cache_policies,innodb_memcache.config_options,mysql.plugin,mysql.rds_configuration,mysql.rds_history,mysql.rds_monitor,mysql.rds_replication_status,mysql.rds_sysinfo
        Replicate_Wild_Do_Table:
    Replicate_Wild_Ignore_Table:
                     Last_Errno: 0
                     Last_Error:
                   Skip_Counter: 0
            Exec_Master_Log_Pos: 700
                Relay_Log_Space: 1166
                Until_Condition: None
                 Until_Log_File:
                  Until_Log_Pos: 0
             Master_SSL_Allowed: No
             Master_SSL_CA_File:
             Master_SSL_CA_Path:
                Master_SSL_Cert:
              Master_SSL_Cipher:
                 Master_SSL_Key:
          Seconds_Behind_Master: NULL
  Master_SSL_Verify_Server_Cert: No
                  Last_IO_Errno: 2061
                  Last_IO_Error: error connecting to master 'replicator@localhost:3306' - retry-time: 60 retries: 1 message: Authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' reported error: Authentication requires secure connection.
                 Last_SQL_Errno: 0
                 Last_SQL_Error:
    Replicate_Ignore_Server_Ids:
               Master_Server_Id: 0
                    Master_UUID:
               Master_Info_File: mysql.slave_master_info
                      SQL_Delay: 0
            SQL_Remaining_Delay: NULL
        Slave_SQL_Running_State: Slave has read all relay log; waiting for more updates
             Master_Retry_Count: 86400
                    Master_Bind:
        Last_IO_Error_Timestamp: 211111 23:08:40
       Last_SQL_Error_Timestamp:
                 Master_SSL_Crl:
             Master_SSL_Crlpath:
             Retrieved_Gtid_Set:
              Executed_Gtid_Set:
                  Auto_Position: 0
           Replicate_Rewrite_DB:
                   Channel_Name:
             Master_TLS_Version:
         Master_public_key_path:
          Get_master_public_key: 0
              Network_Namespace:
  </code></pre>
  <p>I have tried changing my master db user password format to mysql native password. But it is not helping. What should I do to get through this problem?</p>