We want to auto login users in phpMyAdmin. Now we have a web-interface, written in PHP. Users can login. After logging in, they can click on the SQL link in the menu that opens phpMyAdmin. Is there a way to log them in automatically? Is it possible to set cookies for phpMyAdmin or something to let them use it?
We don't want to turn off phpMyAdmin's login; each user has his own MySQL user/pass combination. So we need to pass the username/password settings to phpMyAdmin.
6 Answers
Add code in config.inc.php below of /* Authentication type */. It exists in the root folder
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
Edit config.inc.php
Location : /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
Find for the blow code
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
And replace the line of code by blow code
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'your_password';
If your password null or '' the uncomment the blow line
//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = TRUE;
to
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = TRUE;
then it will work fine !
You can simply post the username in a field named pma_username and the password in pma_password. Or, if you're using http auth mode you can create a link with username and password like
config.inc.php
/* Authentication type */
//$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == '::1' (**ipv6**)
//$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == '127.0.0.1' (**ipv4**)
if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == '::1') {
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'user';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password';
} else {
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
}
Sometimes when working at your local environment it annoys to login each time. To avoid it you can do the following:
Add following lines at bottom of file:
phpmyadmin\config.inc.php
$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 10000; // Keep long validity :)-
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // Your user name
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root'; // Your password
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
After that shutdown your db server & restart again. Now check & you will see that you will login without entering user name & password.
Things are much easier in 2020 if you need this for development. Just set environment variables:
PMA_USER: "the-root"
PMA_PASSWORD: "the-password"
