Start phpAdmin. If you are asked to login in$,$ jump to step X$.$

If you are not asked to login in$,$ then you should see the phpMyAdmin panel as shown in

Figure $7\mathrm{.}1.$ If this is your first time using phpAdmin on your machine, you will likely

need to do steps $2.$

$2.$ If this is the first$-$time using MySQL on your machine, you should specify a password for

the MySQL root user before proceeding. To do so$,$ click on the Users accounts$/$tab at the top

of the phpAdmin page.

$3.$ From the list of users, click the Edit Privileges link for user root, host $127\mathrm{.}0\mathrm{.}0\mathrm{.}1.$

You will see a list of privileges and other information for this user.

$4.$ Scroll down to the login information. And specify a password for the root user. Be sure to

remember yours!! Click the Go button when ready. Return to the main phpMyAdmin page

by clicking on the logo phpMyAdmin and then jumping to step $6.$ You should see a message

indicating that the password was changed successfully.