How to configure phpMyAdmin for multiple users - each with access to their database only

Question

I want to configure phpMyAdmin to be able to accept one of several different user account logins. Each user would be allocated a specific database and only have access to that.<

Answer 1

use this

  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

in place of

  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';

in your config.inc.php and restart services then authentication process will start for all users and they can do work according to there grants.

Answer 2

If you want to add a different host with user and password defined, you can do it adding the next lines on the config.inc.php

the first parameter auth_type element sets as cookie

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

and the second conection changes as config (increment the i variable)

$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'user';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'anotherhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';