FATAL this authentication plugin is not supported

While setting up orchestrator, on trying to start it up , it throw the exception : FATAL this authentication plugin is not supported. Am on latest mysql version 8.0.25-15 Percona Server (GPL), Release 15

In debug mode below are the message appear:
orchestrator]# cd /usr/local/orchestrator && ./orchestrator --debug --stack http
2021-10-01 01:14:38 INFO starting orchestrator
2021-10-01 01:14:38 INFO Read config: /etc/orchestrator.conf.json
2021-10-01 01:14:38 DEBUG Initializing orchestrator
2021-10-01 01:14:38 DEBUG Migrating database schema
2021-10-01 01:14:38 FATAL this authentication plugin is not supported
goroutine 1 [running]:
runtime/debug.Stack(0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
/usr/local/bin/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:24 +0x80

[root@mysql-dr-monitor-svr-01 orchestrator]# mysql -uroot -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 18
Server version: 8.0.25-15 Percona Server (GPL), Release 15, Revision a558ec2

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Anyone ever encoountered such an issue? Mysql error logs does not show anything. Selinux is in permissive mode.

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MAnaged to resolve this on my own, I tried it on a lower version of mysql and it worked.

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