I've set up XAMPP (3.2.2) on Windows 10 for use by high school student in a first year web development course. They each have their own private database in MySQL and I want them to be able to log into phpMyAdmin to access their databases. None of them will be on the server machine. I also want to be able to log in remotely as root. I've done a great deal of googling and played with config.inc.php a lot. So far, I've configed in a way that root is logged in automatically from everywhere; and changed that so that things work well locally but remotely I get
#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
That's where I am now.
Goal:
1. Allow access and force login from any computer in the world.
2. Allow logout
3. Log out automatically on timeout (and when browser closes if possible).