gentoo and phpmyadmin

[mactabilis]

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I have installed phpmyadmin and when i view it on my localhost it asks for a passwd and username ,How do i create a passwd and username for it i cant find the options and i was not promted to do so.

[sdousley]

These should be the MySQL username and passwords you have setup (if you have set these up already, if not, you will first need to set a root password for the MySQL server iirc, the command is:

mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

obviously changing new-password to the password you want to set. Then using phpmyadmin, the username would be root, and the password what you specify here.