# Support sockets without a socket inode
# https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp/commit/40e4f98ee896ea10967eb1c4323bb718331eabea
diff --git a/src/mpdpp.cpp b/src/mpdpp.cpp
index ccdee31d..9a92e5df 100644
--- a/src/mpdpp.cpp
+++ b/src/mpdpp.cpp
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ unsigned Connection::Version() const
 void Connection::SetHostname(const std::string &host)
 {
 	size_t at = host.find("@");
-	if (at != std::string::npos)
+	if (at != 0 && at != std::string::npos)
 	{
 		m_password = host.substr(0, at);
 		m_host = host.substr(at+1);