Cookie authentication mode ¶

• Username and password are stored in cookies during the session and password is deleted when it ends.
• With this mode, the user can truly log out of phpMyAdmin and log back in with the same username (this is not possible with HTTP authentication mode).
• If you want to allow users to enter any hostname to connect (rather than only servers that are configured in config.inc.php), see the $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] directive.
• As mentioned in the Requirements section, having the openssl extension will speed up access considerably, but is not required.