diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d231b673..310558ba 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ linkchecker (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
   * linkchecker.1: added a man page
   * setup.py: overloaded distutils debugging function dump_dirs
   * setup.py: handle man pages correctly with bdist_rpm target
+  * correct order with user/password authentication entries (report and
+    fix by Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>)
+  * default password is joe@, not guest@ (report and fix by Jamie
+    Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>)
 
- -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>  Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:42:02 +0100
+ -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>  Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:13:52 +0100
 
 linkchecker (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/linkcheck/Config.py b/linkcheck/Config.py
index a46929e9..10c4cd8c 100644
--- a/linkcheck/Config.py
+++ b/linkcheck/Config.py
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ class Configuration(UserDict.UserDict):
                 tuple = string.split(cfgparser.get(section, "entry"+`i`))
 		if len(tuple)!=3: break
                 tuple[0] = re.compile(tuple[0])
-                self.data["authentication"].append(tuple)
+                self.data["authentication"].insert(0, tuple)
                 i = i + 1
         except ConfigParser.Error: pass
 
diff --git a/linkchecker b/linkchecker
index 9a2e7dbf..268e6aea 100755
--- a/linkchecker
+++ b/linkchecker
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Usage = _("USAGE\tlinkchecker [options] file-or-url...\n"
 "        Default type is text.\n"
 "-p pwd, --password=pwd\n"
 "        Try password pwd for HTML and FTP authorization.\n"
-"        Default password is 'guest@'. See also -u.\n"
+"        Default password is 'joe@'. See also -u.\n"
 "-q, --quiet\n"
 "        Quiet operation. This is only useful with -F.\n"
 "-r depth, --recursion-level=depth\n"