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How to get phpmyadmin username and password

I have intalled phpmyadmin recently in my system. Now I lost its username and password. I tried the below methods for login.

in etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php I activated the AllowNoPassword

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = TRUE;

Solution 
  •  Step 1:

    Locate phpMyAdmin installation path.

    Step 2:

    Open phpMyAdmin>config.inc.php in your favourite text editor.

    Step 3:

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
    $cfg['Lang'] = '';