Is there a way to allow other people to access phpmyadmin without having to go through Cpanel. I tried setting up a user w/ sufficient editing privs, but when you go to access the phpmyadmin URL, it wants you to 1st login to CPanelX....

I want people to just be able to go direct into PHPmyadmin and thus have the limited access I granted that user. I can do this locally on my powerbook, but that doesn't help me cause my powerbook isn't connected always and, additionally, isn't accessing the hostony mysql servers (yeah, I know you can setup to do so, don't want to, cause then I'd have to leave it on all the time).

-Scott, hoping he's being descriptive enough..

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Sorry, but unfortunately there is no such feature at Linux servers.

I don't understand how the operating system has anything to do with it. The powerbook is bsd, but its just php and apache.

You didn't understand me
There is such feature at Windows based hosting accounts. I meant that there is no the same thing at control panel for Linux.

That makes more sense. When will this feature be added? Definitely needed.

Sorry, but we don't currently plan to add it to Linux hosting.

Any particular reason(s)? Security, pain in the rump, etc?

CPanel is a 3rd party product and we can't just simply add something to it.

But phpmyadmin isn't the same thing as cpanel, its separate. Guess I'm not understanding how the authentication model is vis-a-vis Cpanel and how it 'protects' phpmyadmin sitting behind it (well, to me, it seems its sitting behind it).

Could I install phpmyadmin w/n my public_html and give people access that way? Would that work (and, would that be allowed?)

It is allowed but we can't guarantee that it will work.
Anyhow you can try.

Never any gaurantees, thanks...

Worked flawlessly w/o incident... ok, I forgot to change from config auth type to http, but, all the same, that was a bone headed mistake.

Thanks stanly....

if you make it work, please notify me ?
thanks a lot

sent mblendinger a PM with a response to his question, but someone else might want to know, so....

just upload the files to a folder (i used phpmyadmin). Go into the config.inc.php and change the authorization type from the default 'config' to 'http'

You have to go into Cpanel and create users, btw. And the users are prepended be the cpanel login, for example, cpanelusrnm_mysqluser. Passwords are as expected.

Very easy. Permissions are enforced, everything.

-Scott, depewwildcats.com