This is no longer needed in 2.7 or 2.8 with PHP 7.4 but some users upgrading the system over the same MySQL instance may still have that configuration change. As noted by Jim Adamson in the following user forum thread, this makes the MySQL log grow with warnings about the deprecation of such method:
AtoM 2.6.x required to use the legacy authentication method in MySQL in order to work with PHP 7.2:
https://accesstomemory.org/en/docs/2.6/admin-manual/installation/linux/ubuntu-bionic/#mysql
This is no longer needed in 2.7 or 2.8 with PHP 7.4 but some users upgrading the system over the same MySQL instance may still have that configuration change. As noted by Jim Adamson in the following user forum thread, this makes the MySQL log grow with warnings about the deprecation of such method:
https://groups.google.com/g/ica-atom-users/c/VGcUg43yWrU/m/vIoWWFh0AgAJ
As Jim suggests in that thread, we could add a note to alter existing AtoM users in the MySQL server in the upgrading docs for 2.7 and 2.8:
https://accesstomemory.org/en/docs/2.7/admin-manual/installation/upgrading/#copy-your-old-data