diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fdebb06e2..547924632 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2002-11-05 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * main.php3: when the user does not have required privs to create
+      a db, inform him of the situation
+
 2002-11-04 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * libraries/display_tbl.lib.php3, sort order problem
       SELECT tablename.columnname ... order by tablename.columnname
diff --git a/main.php3 b/main.php3
index e4953bee5..63ecc5870 100755
--- a/main.php3
+++ b/main.php3
@@ -308,7 +308,19 @@ if ($server > 0) {
             </td>
         </tr>
             <?php
-        } // end create db form
+        } else {
+            echo "\n";
+            ?>
+        <!-- db creation no privileges message -->
+        <tr>
+            <td valign="baseline"><img src="<?php echo $item_img; ?>" width="7" height="7" alt="item" /></td>
+            <td>
+                <?php echo $strCreateNewDatabase . ':&nbsp;' . PMA_showMySQLDocu('Reference', 'CREATE_DATABASE'); ?><br />
+                <?php echo '<i>' . $strNoPrivileges .'</i>'; ?><br />
+            </td>
+        </tr>
+            <?php
+        } // end create db form or message
         echo "\n";
 
         // Server related links