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Marc Delisle
2001-08-23 13:20:12 +00:00
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</ul>
Advanced authentication is secure as the standard user needs just
read-only-access to the mysql database. MySQL passwords cannot be
decrypted easily, so there's no chance for a normal user to look at
other users' plaintext passwords.<br /><br />
read-only-access to the mysql database.<br /><br />
All you have to provide in config.inc is a standard user which can
connect to MySQL and read the mysql user/db table
@@ -332,10 +330,10 @@
<b>$cfgServers[n]['stdpass']</b> string
</dt>
<dd>
A user/pasword pair used to verify the real user/password pair when
using advanced authentification. This user must be able to connect to
A user/password pair used to verify the real user/password pair when
using advanced authentication. This user must be able to connect to
MySQL and read the mysql user table.<br />
Not needed when using basic authentification.
Not needed when using basic authentication.
<br /><br />
</dd>
@@ -345,8 +343,8 @@
</dt>
<dd>
The user/password-pair which phpMyAdmin will use to connect to this
MySQL-server when using basic authentification.<br />
Not needed when using advanced authentification.
MySQL-server when using basic authentication.<br />
Not needed when using advanced authentication.
<br /><br />
</dd>
@@ -397,7 +395,7 @@
</li>
</ul><br />
If you are using advanced authentification, stduser must have
If you are using advanced authentication, stduser must have
<tt>Select_Priv, Insert_Priv</tt> and <tt>Delete_Priv</tt> set to "Y"
in <i>mysql.db</i> table for the bookmark database.
<br /><br />
@@ -679,7 +677,7 @@
<p>
<b>phpMyAdmin always gives "Access denied" when using advanced
authentification.</b>
authentication.</b>
<br />
This could happen for some reasons:
</p>
@@ -695,16 +693,16 @@
<li>
You have already setup a security mechanism for the
phpMyAdmin-directory, eg. a .htaccess file. This would interfere with
phpMyAdmin's authentification, so remove it.
phpMyAdmin's authentication, so remove it.
</li>
</ul>
<a name="login_bug"></a>
<p>
<b>When using advanced authentification, an user who logged out can not
<b>When using advanced authentication, an user who logged out can not
relogs in with the same nick.</b>
<br />
This is related to the authentification mechanism (protocol) used by
This is related to the authentication mechanism (protocol) used by
phpMyAdmin. We plan to change it as soon as we may find enough free time
to do it, but you can bypass this problem: just close all the opened
browser windows and then go back to phpMyAdmin. You should be able to
@@ -749,7 +747,7 @@
sufficient to use the directory protection bundled with your webserver
(with Apache you can use <i>.htaccess</i> files, for example).<br />
If other people have telnet access to your server,
you should use phpMyAdmin's advanced authentification feature.
you should use phpMyAdmin's advanced authentication feature.
<br /><br />
Suggestions:
</p>
@@ -1075,7 +1073,7 @@ Original Credits of Version 2.1.0
well as a bug-report. Plus many smaller improvements.
- Jan Legenhausen &lt;jan_at_nrw.net&gt;: He made many of the changes that
were introduced in 1.3.0 (including quite significant ones like the
authentification). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
authentication). For 1.4.1 he enhanced the table-dump feature. Plus
bug-fixes and help.
- Marc Delisle &lt;DelislMa_at_CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca&gt; made phpMyAdmin
language-independent by outsourcing the strings to a separate file. He