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Asked: 2026-06-07T00:02:46+00:00

I assigned a password to the root MySQL user in XAMPP some times ago.

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I assigned a password to the root MySQL user in XAMPP some times ago. I recently tried to undo that and give it no password but it’s not working.

I tried setting the password to an empty string using mysqld --skip-grant-tables and then using the mysql command line directly. It looks like it works, the root user no longer has a password, however if I login in PhpMyAdmin I cannot see any of my databases, only an “information_schema” and a “test” database. If I look at the User tab, it seems to have all the privileges though:

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Any suggestion on how to fix this issue?

Note: I checked with the command line, all my databases and tables are still there, I just cannot see them in PHPMyAdmin.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try removing the anonymous user who is allowed to connect from any host. My feeling is that that row is taking precidence over the row for root when MySQL validates the login.

    If you have removed that Anonymous user and the issue still occurs, try setting a password to root and the host to localhost then connect again.

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