diff --git a/libraries/auth/basic.auth.lib.php3 b/libraries/auth/basic.auth.lib.php3
deleted file mode 100644
index e00d43c3f..000000000
--- a/libraries/auth/basic.auth.lib.php3
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/* $Id$ */
-
-// +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-// | Set of functions used to run basic authentication (ie no                 |
-// | authentication).                                                         |
-// +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-
-if (!defined('PMA_BASIC_AUTH_INCLUDED')) {
-    define('PMA_BASIC_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_BASIC_AUTH_LIB__
-?>
