phpMyAdmin reports 'No Privileges'

Question

Long story short, I ended up deleting the root user from PHPMyAdmin in EasyPHP. After some researching, I used skip-grant-tables to regain database access. Now, however, I cannot do anything as the root user has 'No Privileges.'

That stated, when logged in as 'root,' I do, indeed, have the ability to create a database via SQL.

I've tried the following, and similar:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Still, I can't do anything. Additionally, I have this message:

The additional features for working with linked tables have been deactivated. To find out why click here.

Clicking through shows:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] ...    OK
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
General relation features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] ...   not OK [ Documentation ]
Display Features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] ...    not OK [ Documentation ]
Creation of PDFs: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] ...  not OK [ Documentation ]
Displaying Column Comments: Disabled
Browser transformation: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] ...    not OK [ Documentation ]
Bookmarked SQL query: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] ...  not OK [ Documentation ]
SQL history: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] ...  not OK [ Documentation ]
Designer: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
Tracking: Disabled

Reinstalling EasyPHP doesn't fix the problem, and nothing exists in VirtualStore (as one forum post suggested). Is there a specific MySQL file I should be looking for?

Any ideas? This has really put a stop to my application development.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This was super annoying.

It appears to be a bug with phpMyAdmin.

Clear your browser cookies, what's happening is phpMyAdmin has "cached" the fact that you do not (or possibly didn't have at some point) create database access.

There's no way to reset it other than deleting your cookies for phpMyAdmin in your browser window (to get a new 'session id'), or deleting the session files on the phpMyAdmin web server.

Answer 2

If your machine has IPv6 enabled, "localhost" will resolve to ::1, rather than 127.0.0.1. This can cause issues.

Try connecting to "127.0.0.1" rather than "localhost". That ought to force mysql to authenticate by IPv4 address, so make sure 127.0.0.1 is in there.

Alternatively, if you have admin access, you can map localhost back to 127.0.0.1 in c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts.