PHPMyAdmin Security

[VLE79E]

I like to use phpmyadmin but if I just copy in my home directory, anybody can use it. Right???

Does phpmyaddmin support authentication? If not how do you guys overcome this problem?

[planetsim]

Well im not entirely sure on your problem here besides wanting PHPMyAdmin with authentication. Unfortuneately i havent actually seen anything like that.

But then im not sure if your asking this as in on your Computer or online. If its online. A person would have to hack into your web Account and get into PHPMyadmin. Other than that id say its pretty secure.

[terrabull]

You could set up apache to use autentication on the
directory that phpMyAdmin uses.

ie. You would have to give a username and password to access the directory.

You could also just change the following setting to http: in the config.inc.php in the phpMyAdmin dir:

$cfgServers[$i]['auth_type'] = 'http'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?