Dimitry,
> You cannot do that if you
> 1) Have no access to the file (and server file system as whole).
> 2) Don't know password of database owner.
1) Yes agreed, you need access to the file - so I have been testing what
happens if the file does somehow fall into the wrong hands
2) In
Alexey, thank you for the extremenly quick response.
So, I did understand correctly - anyone can open any Firebird database and
view the data (unless it happens to be encrypted).
I am rather shocked by that.
Steve Bailey
I am new to Firebird, trying to understand how it handles user security.
I want to create a database owned by and accessible to only one user - and
that should not be SYSDBA.
Let's call the database MyDB.
In databases.conf I created an alias for MyDB and specified that it should be
Helen,
Thanks for the prompt reply.
You wrote:
"So - off-topic in Firebird Support. But, anyway..."
Apologies for that. I did not read the welcome email (which says no questions
on alpha or beta releases) until after I had posted my question (assuming
Firebird Support was the right
I am using Firebird 4.0 Beta 1. The release notes describe a new system
function RDB$ERROR:
"The function RDB$ERROR() takes a PSQL error context as input and returns the
specific context of the active
exception. Its scope is confined to the context of the exception-handling block
in PSQL.
