A word about users ΒΆ

Many people have difficulty understanding the concept of user management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When a user logs in to phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly to MySQL. phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than allowing one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users must be valid MySQL users.

Footnotes

[1] (1, 2) phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip or RFC 1952 formats) dumps and CSV exports if you use PHP with Zlib support (--with-zlib). Proper support may also need changes in php.ini.