[PLUG] Default password for phpMyAdmin? was Test.

[Ronald Chmara]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:42 AM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> I can't think of anything on the surface that looks ungood here. My next
> suggestion would be to set a password in mysql and try again from
> phpmyadmin.
>
> -wes

Re-looking at this today, suPHP might mean that phpMyAdmin and mysql
needs a specific UID's password and account setup... since the whole
point of suPHP seems to be eliminating the ability of a generic user
(say, a webserver's default UID) from having another's users (say,
root?) permissions?

> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> Okay. The test made it though. I'll try the real question again, but
>> this time I'll obfuscate the part that looks like it might cause a problem.
>>
>> Using Synaptic I have installed mySQL, suPHP, and phpMyAdmin on my
>> laptop (Ubuntu 10.04). Navigating to localhost/phpmyadmin gives me the
>> phpMyadmin login page. From my reading I assumed that there would be a
>> user named root and that the default password would be blank. However
>> when I try to log in I get an error message that says, "Login without a
>> password is forbidden by configuration (see AllowNoPassword)".
>> Googling, I found:
>>
>> Edit the file config.inc.php, search and uncomment this line:
>> <obfuscation>
>>
>> slash slash space dollarcfg]'Servers'][dollari]['AllowNoPassword'] = TRUE;
>>
>> I tried that, and restarted Apache. But I still get the error message
>> about login without a password is forbidden by configuration.
>>
>> Is there some step that I missed?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick Steffens