diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 33247a5..4435e92 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Changelog for hydra
 
 Release 9.1-dev
 * your patch? :)
+* changed mysql module not to use mysql db as a default. if the user has not access to this db auth fails ...
 * added -K command line switch to disable redo attempts (good for mass scanning)
 * forgot to have the -m option in the hydra help output
 
diff --git a/hydra-mysql.c b/hydra-mysql.c
index 0fda989..c33dc88 100644
--- a/hydra-mysql.c
+++ b/hydra-mysql.c
@@ -180,19 +180,13 @@ int32_t start_mysql(int32_t sock, char *ip, int32_t port, unsigned char options,
   char *response = NULL, *login = NULL, *pass = NULL;
   unsigned long response_len;
   char res = 0;
-  char database[256];
+  char *database = NULL;
 
   login = hydra_get_next_login();
   pass = hydra_get_next_password();
 
   if (miscptr)
-    strncpy(database, miscptr, sizeof(database) - 1);
-  else {
-    strncpy(database, DEFAULT_DB, sizeof(database) - 1);
-    if (verbose)
-      hydra_report(stderr, "[VERBOSE] using default db 'mysql'\n");
-  }
-  database[sizeof(database) - 1] = 0;
+    database = miscptr;
 
   /* read server greeting */
   res = hydra_mysql_init(sock);