установил phpMyAdmin, настроил config.inc.php, в этом файле следующее:

$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname or IP address
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '/tmp/mysql.sock';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'socket';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection
                                                    // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']   = 'phpfor1';          // MySQL control user settings
                                                    // (this user must have read-only
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass']   = 'passphpfor1';          // access to the "mysql/user"
                                                    // and "mysql/db" tables).
                                                    // The controluser is also
                                                    // used for all relational
                                                    // features (pmadb)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'config';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = 'root';      // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = 'rootpas';          // MySQL password (only needed
                                                    // with 'config' auth_type)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']       = '';          // If set to a db-name, only
                                                    // this db is displayed in left frame
                                                    // It may also be an array of db-names, where sorting order is relevant.
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']       = '';          // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname

А он выдет ошибку:

Ошибка

Ответ MySQL:

#1249 - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server. Consider upgrading MySQL client

Пробовал черз консоль так:
#mysql -u phpfor1 -p
password:

все работает.

Версия клиента mysql - mysql  Ver 13.5 Distrib 4.1.0-alpha, for portbld-freebsd4.9 (i386)

Версия phpMyAdmin - phpMyAdmin 2.5.7 pl1

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