diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 47878328c..787551601 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ $Source$
 	* read_dump.php3, lines 286-288; lang/*: "there is no query" were displayed
 	  when deleting a bookmark.
 	* Documentation.php3; main.php3; libraries/common.lib.php3: feature request
-	  #??? (will update this whn SF is up) - Improved security by no long
-	  requiring the "SELECT" privilege on the "Password" field for the standard
-	  user.
+	  #450246 - Authentication: don't give stduser access to encrypted passw.
 	* Documentation.html: added faq entries about a Xitami 2.5b4 bug and a
 	  widespread IIS misconfiguration problem.
+	* footer.inc.php3: closed MySQL connection in this script (it seems this
+	  may be required for RedHat 7.1 at least).
 
 2001-10-27  Olivier Müller  <om@omnis.ch>
 	* config.inc.php3: put the ENCRYPT function back to the config file.
diff --git a/footer.inc.php3 b/footer.inc.php3
index 383fb8d39..7e59c93a8 100755
--- a/footer.inc.php3
+++ b/footer.inc.php3
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@
 
 // In this file you may add PHP or HTML statements that will be used to define
 // the footer for phpMyAdmin pages.
+
+/**
+ * Close MySql connections
+ */
+if (isset($dbh) && $dbh) {
+    mysql_close($dbh);
+}
+if (isset($userlink) && $userlink) {
+    mysql_close($userlink);
+}
 ?>
 
 </body>