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Asked: 2026-05-25T18:37:54+00:00

I’d like to secure my phpmyadmin area by using Apache2 mod_dbd Basic Auth, and

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I’d like to secure my phpmyadmin area by using Apache2 mod_dbd Basic Auth, and I’d like to use the ‘mysql’ database and ‘user’ table for authentication. (Which, in my opinion, makes complete sense.)

The problem I’m having is with the password encryption for this table, which uses MySQL’s PASSWORD() function to store the users password.

I’ve done a bit of tinkering and can’t figure out if it would be possible at all to use mysql’s ‘user’ table because of this, as Apache will only use the encryption types mentioned in this page.

So as a last resort, I’d like to know if anyone has been able to successfully get this working?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Unfortunately, this isn’t possible — mod_authn_dbd doesn’t actually verify the password itself, but instead acts as a source for a password hash which Apache later checks using a separate authorization module like mod_auth_basic or mod_auth_digest. As such, you’d have to find an authorization module which directly supported the MySQL PASSWORD() hash format, which I don’t believe exists.

    You could, of course, add an extra column to the MySQL user table for an Apache-compatible password hash. That’d hardly be any better than just keeping a separate authentication database, though — for instance, you’d have to manually update it whenever you did a new GRANT — so it’s probably not worth doing.

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