Question

Up until now I can’t figure out why is phpmyadmin inaccessible when I put a password on the root user.
But I’ve seen someone accessing phpmyadmin and inputting a username and password. How do I do that, so that I can access phpmyadmin even when I put a password to the root user. Because maybe by default the login form is inaccessible. Do I have to write my own php code to have that kind of login form?

Answer 1

take a look at phpmyadmin documentation there is some options about authentication.

quote from the relevant part of the documentation

$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’]
string
[‘HTTP’|’http’|’cookie’|’config’|’signon’]
Whether config or cookie or HTTP or
signon authentication should be used
for this server. ‘config’
authentication ($auth_type = ‘config’)
is the plain old way: username and
password are stored in config.inc.php.
‘cookie’ authentication mode
($auth_type = ‘cookie’) as introduced
in 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any
valid MySQL user with the help of
cookies. Username and password are
stored in cookies during the session
and password is deleted when it ends.
This can also allow you to log in in
arbitrary server if
$cfg[‘AllowArbitraryServer’] enabled.
‘HTTP’ authentication (was called
‘advanced’ in previous versions and
can be written also as ‘http’)
($auth_type = ‘HTTP’) as introduced in
1.3.0 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user via HTTP-Auth.
‘signon’ authentication mode
($auth_type = ‘signon’) as introduced
in 2.10.0 allows you to log in from
prepared PHP session data. This is
useful for implementing single signon
from another application. Sample way
how to seed session is in signon
example: scripts/signon.php. You need
to configure session name and signon
URL to use this authentication method.
Please see the install section on
“Using authentication modes” for more
information.

I think you want to use the ‘http’ one.