diff --git a/components/options.php b/components/options.php
index e7612671d2a3e5a1cad9b996a47a04cf0f9a25b5..b21ebb3b53fb481830c2f584bec746fa24d095d0 100644
--- a/components/options.php
+++ b/components/options.php
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ $smarty->assign('session', $session);
 if ($session->loggedin === TRUE) {
 
 	$sucsDB = NewADOConnection('postgres8');
-	$sucsDB->Connect('dbname='.$sucsdbname);
+	$sucsDB->Connect('dbname='.$sucsdbname.' user=apache');
 	$sucsDB->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);
 //	$sucsDB->debug = true;
 	
@@ -317,9 +317,9 @@ if ($session->loggedin === TRUE) {
 
 
 // connect to Blog DB to see if user has a SUCS blog	
-	require_once("/usr/share/adodb/adodb.inc.php");
+	require_once("/usr/share/php/adodb/adodb.inc.php");
 	$BlogDB = NewADOConnection('postgres8');
-	$BlogDB->Connect('dbname=blogs');
+	$BlogDB->Connect('dbname=blogs user=apache');
 	$BlogDB->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC); 
 	require_once('../lib/blog/validation.lib.php');
 	if (blogger($session->username)) {
diff --git a/components/societies.php b/components/societies.php
index 698d6cae15bafe92a83fbe1c4e40698ea92ac8fc..ed4686e3e0dddd48ca031419943475d78d5f5eaa 100644
--- a/components/societies.php
+++ b/components/societies.php
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ define('_LDAP_SERVER', 'ldap://silver');
 
 // Connect and bind to ldap server
 $conn = ldap_connect(_LDAP_SERVER);
-$bind = ldap_bind($conn);
+# ldap_set_option($conn, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3);
+# $bind = ldap_bind($conn);
 
 $search = ldap_search($conn, _BASE_DN, 'uid=*', array('uid', 'cn', 'homedirectory'));