[thelist] Issues connecting PHPMyAdmin to MySQL

[Max Schwanekamp]

> From: Randal Rust 
> > The error sounds like you have auth_type set to 'config', 
> user as 'root' but
> > have no password entered (i.e. "(using password: NO)".  Is 
> that the case?
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'config';
> $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = 'root';
> $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = '';
> 
> I checked all three of the other installations that I have running
> here at home, and they are all set the same.

Gah, really?!?  You mean you're allowing root access without a password?!?
Anyway, you should be able to get into MySQL at the command line; whatever
user+pass you use on the command line is what should be in the
config.inc.php file.

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Max Schwanekamp
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