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I have installed phpmyadmin using yum command. mysql, apache, php were already installed. Now when I go to htpp://localhost/phpmyadmin in the web browser, I get a window asking me for a username and password preceded by the following message:

A username and password are being requested by http://localhost. The site says: "phpMyAdmin localhost"

I am clueless what is happening here. Please help?

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Typically I would expect phpMyAdmin to request a MySQL username and password. The MySQL root user can (and should) have a different password from the normal root password.

You did secure your MySQL install with a password, right?

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  • thanks buddy.. wasted whole day figuring out what was wrong.. I ran /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation and set a password different than the root password, user id remains same = root.. and it worked beautifully! Commented Jul 13, 2014 at 13:20

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