diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f9ba5fd36..7e6e291ef 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ $Source$
 
 2003-04-17 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/ukrainian: update, thanks to Markijan Baran
+    * server_common.inc.php3: bug 722791: "USE mysql" is not a good
+      test in MySQL 4 to check if superuser
 
 2003-04-17 Michal Cihar  <nijel@users.sourceforge.net>
     * tbl_replace_fields.php3: Fix typo.
diff --git a/server_common.inc.php3 b/server_common.inc.php3
index d84f3ad11..b64abfcd9 100644
--- a/server_common.inc.php3
+++ b/server_common.inc.php3
@@ -40,6 +40,5 @@ require('./header.inc.php3');
 /**
  * Checks for superuser privileges
  */
-$is_superuser = @PMA_mysql_query('USE mysql', $userlink);
-
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+$is_superuser = @PMA_mysql_query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mysql.user', $userlink);
+?>