title: MySql login issue - auth_socket not loaded
body: <p>Before I go any further, I will say that I have read many other posts and tried to fix this issue, but I just end up not being able to go anywhere because of more errors when trying to execute the commands.</p>
  
  <p>I have no idea how the issue occurred, but when I try to do "mysql" to enter the MySQL environment, I get the following error: <code>ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin 'auth_socket' is not loaded</code></p>
  
  <p>I am running MariaDB in this version: <code>mariadb  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.4.10-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2</code></p>
  
  <p>Any help at all would be greatly appreciated as I don't really want to start over again. And as a quick side note, I can still access databases from my applications.</p>