Development environments will not have a root password, generally. But phpMyAdmin has a setting that discourages password-less login. If you do so, you will get the below error.
Login without a password is forbidden by configuration (see AllowNoPassword)
If you still want to setup the password-less login, some people suggests following option. But it didn’t work for me.
phpMyAdmin Config Change
Edit config.inc.php. (Ensure you have a backup before you do so. Otherwise, you may corrupt the whole config file.)
$ sudo vi /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
You will find a line like this
// $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = TRUE;
Uncomment this.
Still some of them say it works for their version and Operating system.
Creating a super user for phpMyAdmin
MySQL does not allow root user to login from phpMyAdmin. So you may create a super user for phpmyadmin using the following queries.
CREATE USER 'pmauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '<your password>';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'pmauser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
flush privilegesFeed in the username and password to phpMyAdmin. It worked for me.