Disable phpmyadmin login

PhpMyAdmin is a webbased database management application and it is a very good tool for developer.

But there is one problem if you want to install it localhost which is annoying login after AFK for a while

I have google for these solution and the result wasnt good enough so I post this so I can refer it back

Manage to work it out by referring the manual http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#servers_user

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Nows lets disable the annoying login

Advantage: no annoying
Disadvantage: Less secure, password stored in a file without encrypted

These was tested on Ubuntu machine version 10.10 so I'm not sure about windows
The version of phpmyadmin is 3.3.7deb3build0.10.10.1

1st open the configuration of the phpmyadmin file

sudo gedit /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

Search for string "/* Authentication type */" (its at line no 35)
Disable the "cookie" auth_type and put these code. It should look like these

/* Authentication type */
//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'mypasswordissecret';

So you eventually change the auth_type into 'config' and you required to put the username and password for that

To test the annoying login is now disabled, restart your FireFox (reset the cache) and try to direct to the phpmyadmin (In my case I type "http://localhost/phpmyadmin/" in my FireFox URL)

It work when you are not asked for login. KUPO!

p/s: I know the file was /etc/phpmyadmin/config.ini.php is from file /var/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

Edit 29 Nov 2012
For phpMyAdmin 3.4.11 the configuration file for windows was in libraries/config.default.php
here is my setting, for localhost development
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; //Default is cookie
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['nopassword'] = true; //Default is false
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true; //Default is false