diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5323c8bc..eab851b1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -19371,3 +19371,7 @@
 2019-12-20 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Added a debugging message to the 'LocalAudio::pollData()' method
 	in ripcd(8).
+2019-12-23 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Added a work-around in the 'PyPAD.Receiver().__openDb()' method
+	to work with versions of MySQLdb that do not support the
+	'password=' parameter in 'MySQLdb.connect()'.
diff --git a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
index b6a5bdd7..de52d7ac 100644
--- a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
+++ b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
@@ -797,9 +797,14 @@ class Receiver(object):
 
     def __openDb(self):
         creds=self.__getDbCredentials()
-        return MySQLdb.connect(user=creds[0],password=creds[1],
-                               host=creds[2],database=creds[3],
-                               charset='utf8mb4')
+        try:
+            return MySQLdb.connect(user=creds[0],passwd=creds[1],
+                                   host=creds[2],database=creds[3],
+                                   charset='utf8mb4')
+        except TypeError:
+            return MySQLdb.connect(user=creds[0],password=creds[1],
+                                   host=creds[2],database=creds[3],
+                                   charset='utf8mb4')
 
     def setPadCallback(self,callback):
         """