Lost privileges on users in phpmyadmin with the phpmyadmin user after updating Debian 12 to 13
Posted: Sat 24. Jan 2026, 12:15
Good morning, everyone.
First, my apologies. I don't speak English and I use a translator, which may cause some misunderstandings.
As the subject line indicates, after updating a Debian 12 to 13 VPS, I see that the phpmyadmin user has lost the privileges it had to manage users, so new users cannot be created outside the panel to assign them to existing databases.
I have manually created a user called kurgans with all the privileges as root, but user management is still not accessible.
I have looked at the phpmyadmin conf files and they appear to be correct.
$cfg[‘Servers’][1] = [
// Authentication type
‘auth_type’ => ‘cookie’,
However, it does not respond to either the user created by default in the panel installation or the user created directly on the mariadb console.
Has anyone noticed this issue after updating and/or been able to solve it?
Thank you.
First, my apologies. I don't speak English and I use a translator, which may cause some misunderstandings.
As the subject line indicates, after updating a Debian 12 to 13 VPS, I see that the phpmyadmin user has lost the privileges it had to manage users, so new users cannot be created outside the panel to assign them to existing databases.
I have manually created a user called kurgans with all the privileges as root, but user management is still not accessible.
I have looked at the phpmyadmin conf files and they appear to be correct.
$cfg[‘Servers’][1] = [
// Authentication type
‘auth_type’ => ‘cookie’,
However, it does not respond to either the user created by default in the panel installation or the user created directly on the mariadb console.
Has anyone noticed this issue after updating and/or been able to solve it?
Thank you.