diff --git a/libraries/auth/config.auth.lib.php3 b/libraries/auth/config.auth.lib.php3
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+<?php
+/* $Id$ */
+
+// +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+// | Set of functions used to run config authentication (ie no                 |
+// | authentication).                                                         |
+// +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+if (!defined('PMA_CONFIG_AUTH_INCLUDED')) {
+    define('PMA_CONFIG_AUTH_INCLUDED', 1);
+
+    /**
+     * Displays authentication form
+     *
+     * @return  boolean   always true
+     *
+     * @access  public
+     */
+    function PMA_auth()
+    {
+        return TRUE;
+    } // end of the 'PMA_auth()' function
+
+
+    /**
+     * Gets advanced authentication settings
+     *
+     * @return  boolean   always true
+     *
+     * @access  public
+     */
+    function PMA_auth_check()
+    {
+        return TRUE;
+    } // end of the 'PMA_auth_check()' function
+
+
+    /**
+     * Set the user and password after last checkings if required
+     *
+     * @return  boolean   always true
+     *
+     * @access  public
+     */
+    function PMA_auth_set_user()
+    {
+        return TRUE;
+    } // end of the 'PMA_auth_set_user()' function
+
+
+    /**
+     * User is not allowed to login to MySQL -> authentication failed
+     *
+     * @global  string    the MySQL error message PHP returns
+     * @global  string    the connection type (persitent or not)
+     * @global  string    the MySQL server port to use
+     * @global  string    the MySQL socket port to use
+     * @global  array     the current server settings
+     * @global  string    the font face to use in case of failure
+     * @global  string    the default font size to use in case of failure
+     * @global  string    the big font size to use in case of failure
+     *
+     * @return  boolean   always true (no return indeed)
+     *
+     * @access  public
+     */
+    function PMA_auth_fails()
+    {
+        global $php_errormsg;
+        global $connect_func, $server_port, $server_socket, $cfgServer;
+        global $right_font_family, $font_size, $font_bigger;
+
+        if (mysql_error()) {
+            $conn_error = mysql_error();
+        } else if (isset($php_errormsg)) {
+            $conn_error = $php_errormsg;
+        } else {
+            $conn_error = 'Cannot connect: invalid settings.';
+        }
+        $local_query    = $connect_func . '('
+                        . $cfgServer['host'] . $server_port . $server_socket . ', '
+                        . $cfgServer['user'] . ', '
+                        . $cfgServer['password'] . ')';
+        ?>
+<!DOCTYPE html
+    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $GLOBALS['available_languages'][$GLOBALS['lang']][2]; ?>" lang="<?php echo $GLOBALS['available_languages'][$GLOBALS['lang']][2]; ?>" dir="<?php echo $GLOBALS['text_dir']; ?>">
+
+<head>
+<title><?php echo $GLOBALS['strAccessDenied']; ?></title>
+<style type="text/css">
+<!--
+body     {font-family: <?php echo $right_font_family; ?>; font-size: <?php echo $font_size; ?>; color: #000000}
+h1       {font-family: <?php echo $right_font_family; ?>; font-size: <?php echo $font_bigger; ?>; font-weight: bold}
+//-->
+</style>
+</head>
+
+<body bgcolor="<?php echo $GLOBALS['cfgRightBgColor']; ?>">
+<br /><br />
+<center>
+    <h1><?php echo sprintf($GLOBALS['strWelcome'], ' phpMyAdmin ' . PMA_VERSION); ?></h1>
+</center>
+<br />
+        <?php
+        echo "\n";
+        PMA_mysqlDie($conn_error, $local_query, FALSE);
+
+        return TRUE;
+    } // end of the 'PMA_auth()' function
+
+} // $__PMA_CONFIG_AUTH_LIB__
+?>
