How do I change my phpMyAdmin username?
Open your database in PhpMyAdmin. Click on the database name in the menu to the left, it will unfold all tables. Click on the users table, for example, wp_users. Locate the user you want to change the login name for and click Edit.
How do you change MySQL root password from phpMyAdmin?
The three steps that I did:
- In the MySQL console set a new password. To make that: mysqladmin -u root password 'your_password'
- In phpMyAdmin click in users and set the same password to the user root .
- Finally, set your new password in the config. inc. php . Don't change anything else in this file.