diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 80199cf2c..876b2964a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ Reed Allman <rdallman10 at gmail.com>
 Richard Wilkes <wilkes at me.com>
 Robert Russell <robert at rrbrussell.com>
 Runrioter Wung <runrioter at gmail.com>
+Santhosh Kumar Tekuri <santhosh.tekuri at gmail.com>
 Sho Iizuka <sho.i518 at gmail.com>
 Sho Ikeda <suicaicoca at gmail.com>
 Shuode Li <elemount at qq.com>
diff --git a/auth.go b/auth.go
index b2f19e8f0..f610b5f49 100644
--- a/auth.go
+++ b/auth.go
@@ -274,7 +274,9 @@ func (mc *mysqlConn) auth(authData []byte, plugin string) ([]byte, error) {
 		if len(mc.cfg.Passwd) == 0 {
 			return []byte{0}, nil
 		}
-		if mc.cfg.tls != nil || mc.cfg.Net == "unix" {
+		// unlike caching_sha2_password, sha256_password does not accept
+		// cleartext password on unix transport.
+		if mc.cfg.tls != nil {
 			// write cleartext auth packet
 			return append([]byte(mc.cfg.Passwd), 0), nil
 		}