Installing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 16

A complete explanation of these parameters can be found in the following sections
of this chapter and in Chapter 11. For now, we notice that the setup process has
detected that PHP supports the mysqli extension, so this is the one that is chosen
by default. This extension is the programming library used by PHP to communicate
with MySQL.

Let's enter the minimum parameters required for a first connection. We assume that
our MySQL server is located on localhost, so we keep this value and all the proposed
values intact, except for the following:

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User for config auth : we enter our user name, marc
Password for config auth : we enter our password, bingo