PhpMyAdmin is a really great tool. It's also a really great tool with a history of exceptionally serious security issues. If you run PhpMyAdmin on an Internet-

PhpMyAdmin is a really great tool. It's also a really great tool with a history of exceptionally serious security issues. If you run PhpMyAdmin on an Internet-accessible server please please please add some security above and beyond what the application provides. 1) Use web-server based IP-address based restrictions to allow/deny connections only from trusted hosts. 2) Please run it over HTTPS, as it passes mysql passwords around plaintext when you use cookie or www-auth authentication. 3) Use an additional .htaccess in front of PhpMyAdmin's basic www-auth. 4) Do not host it at /phpmyadmin in your docroot. 5) Maybe consider running it only on a virtualhost listening on a different port.