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I have set my own password and can not log in to phpmyadmin now.
mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)


How to change the password for phpmyadmin?
Please help!

How exactly did you try to set a new password?

I use the ubuntu mate operating system, after installing xampp I started this sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security

After changing MySQL root password, you MUST edit config.inc.php in phpmyadmin folder and apply the new password (you will see, where to apply).

Although I am an administrator. I have no right to see the contents of this file. Is this normal? How do I solve the problem?

Try to change the rights of the file (chmod), if you cannot, you cannot solve it.