This is intentional change. You need to enable empty password logins explicitly by AllowNoPassword directive, see phpMyAdmin documentation for details.
I added documentation about this to README.Debian. ** Changed in: phpmyadmin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: phpmyadmin (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Michal Čihař (nijel) -- Impossible to log in with default configuration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388703 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs