Hi, I attempted to install the Simple version of OpenMRS on MySQL 8/Windows using the default “caching_SHA2_password” authentication settings and ran into an issue that it cannot connect. I was able to work around the root authentication issue by changing the authentication scheme to “standard” per the discussion at this link :
However, the same issue will then happen for the newly created OpenMRS user. Since your version worked I assume you initially configured it with the “standard” authentication?