On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 22:00 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: > On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, rado wrote: > > > running 4.2 and the latest stable phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.1 of course all the > > lamp stuff is running. > > > I can log on as root from local w/the password and it will come up as > > root should w/all privileges. > > A sensible set of security defaults would have an ACL > permitting ('Allow from 127.0.0.1 // Deny from all') > > > coming in from the web is a different story: if one tries to log on from > > the web to the following url and msg: > [... from an external IP] > > Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/index.php on this > > server. > > and it may actually be that sensible defaults reign. Check > with the upstream as to further details as to this -- maybe > even read the documentation; or, dare I say it, read the > source of the config files. > > - Russ Herrold kk thx Russ, ...from phpMyAdmin docs, I set the permissions exactly as they said or I thought I did lol I am really having a bad time of this but how do they say...nothing good comes easy...just wish this info would quit bouncing off me and some of it stick! thx John