diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index a14104d2..ce5badbb 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ release, and a summary of the changes in that release.
 		OpenDKIM does.  Suggested by Robbert Klarenbeek.
 	Log the host portion of ignored Authentication-Results fields at
 		"debug" level.
+	CONTRIB: Fix #59: Allow database name, userid and password to be
+		specified on the command line rather than hard-coding them.
+		Problem noted by Scott Kitterman.
 
 1.1.3		2013/04/13
 	Fix reporting of nonexistent SPF results.  Problem noted by
diff --git a/contrib/rddmarc/dmarcfail.py b/contrib/rddmarc/dmarcfail.py
index 41f7770e..96df270f 100644
--- a/contrib/rddmarc/dmarcfail.py
+++ b/contrib/rddmarc/dmarcfail.py
@@ -35,10 +35,7 @@
 import time
 import MySQLdb
 
-db = MySQLdb.connect(user='dmarc',passwd='xxx',db='dmarc', use_unicode=True)
-MySQLdb.paramstyle='format'
-
-def dmfail(h,f):
+def dmfail(db,h,f):
     e = email.message_from_file(h)
     if(e.get_content_type() != "multipart/report"):
         print f,"is not a report"
@@ -76,11 +73,29 @@ def dmfail(h,f):
 #################################################################################################
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     import sys
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="process DMARC failures")
+    parser.add_argument("-n", "--dbname", dest="dbname", action="store",
+                        type="string", help="database name",
+                        default="opendmarc")
+    parser.add_argument("-p", "--dbpasswd", dest="dbpasswd", action="store",
+                        type="string", help="database password",
+                        default="opendmarc")
+    parser.add_argument("-u", "--dbuser", dest="dbuser", action="store",
+                        type="string", help="database user",
+                        default="opendmarc")
+    parser.add_argument("file", nargs="*")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
     
-    if(len(sys.argv) < 2):
-        dmfail(sys.stdin,"stdin");
+    db = MySQLdb.connect(user=args.dbuser, passwd=args.dbpasswd,
+                         db=args.dbname, use_unicode=True)
+    MySQLdb.paramstyle='format'
+
+    if(len(args.file) == 0):
+        dmfail(db,sys.stdin,"stdin");
     else:
-        for f in sys.argv[1:]:
+        for f in args.file:
             h = open(f)
-            dmfail(h, f)
+            dmfail(db,h,f)
             h.close()
diff --git a/contrib/rddmarc/rddmarc b/contrib/rddmarc/rddmarc
index 194bc151..8ee8c6bf 100644
--- a/contrib/rddmarc/rddmarc
+++ b/contrib/rddmarc/rddmarc
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 # -d print debug info
 # -x read XML files rather than mail messages
 # -r replace existing report rather than failing
+# -u database user
+# -p database password
+# -n database name
 
 # Copyright 2012-2013, Taughannock Networks. All rights reserved.
 
@@ -45,12 +48,20 @@ use DBI;
 use Socket qw{:addrinfo inet_ntop inet_pton AF_INET6 AF_INET};
 use PerlIO::gzip;
 
-use vars qw{$opt_d $opt_r $opt_x};
+use vars qw{$opt_d $opt_r $opt_x $opt_u $opt_p $opt_n};
 
-getopts('drx');
+getopts('drxu:p:n:');
+if (!defined($opt_u)) {
+    $opt_u = "opendmarc";
+}
+if (!defined($opt_p)) {
+    $opt_p = "opendmarc";
+}
+if (!defined($opt_n)) {
+    $opt_n = "opendmarc";
+}
 
-my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=dmarc",
-			    "xxx", "xxx")
+my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$opt_n", $opt_u, $opt_p)
 	    or die "Cannot connect to database\n";
 
 foreach my $i (@ARGV) {