How to enable mysql_clear_password plugin?

Question: I'm getting the following eeror when attempting to connect to a server using MySQL Shell . How can I fix the issue?

MySQL SQL > \connect johnk@myserver:27018
Creating a session to 'johnk@myserver:27018'
Please provide the password for 'johnk@myserver:27018': *********************
MySQL Error 2059 (HY000): Authentication plugin 'mysql_clear_password' cannot be loaded: plugin not enabled

Answer:  By default the MySQL shell has cleartext authentication turned off , to avoid accidental usage of clear text passwords. But if you must use cleartext passwords , enable the the system environment variable LIBMYSQL_ENABLE_CLEARTEXT_PLUGIN

--if on Windows

Set system environment variable LIBMYSQL_ENABLE_CLEARTEXT_PLUGIN = Y

c:\mysqlsh 

MySQL SQL > \connect johnk@myserver:27018
Creating a session to 'johnk@myserver:27018'
Please provide the password for 'johnk@myserver:27018': *********************
Your MySQL connection id is 48705