I recently logged into myphpadmin through the xampp control panel so that I could add a new user to a database. I logged in as root as I always have but now I get a warning that says "You do not have the privileges to administrate the users!" My config.inc.php has the 'auth_type' set to config. I tried setting it to "cookie" and "http" as I found as suggestions on here but it doesn't seem to change anything. I need to be able to add users and change permissions. Any ideas?
I was eventually able to work this out by logging into phpMyAdmin and then typing the following into the SQL cmd window:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Hopefully this will help someone else having this problem as well.